Most of you would think correctly that one of us was enough. Maybe some people looking for me end up with the Abandoned Bunny. Just as people needing an Abandoned Bunny with some sharp Boston IT skills end up here. It’s all just too darn confusing.
Most of you would think correctly that one of us was enough. Maybe some people looking for me end up with the Abandoned Bunny. Just as people needing an Abandoned Bunny with some sharp Boston IT skills end up here. It’s all just too darn confusing.
Should the state-funded NHS in the UK pay for IVF treatment for couples wanting children? In some areas of the UK it does, in others not. Shock. Discrimination. The point of course is that such anomalies are not a bug, they’re a feature. Hard decisions have to be made on […]
… hosted by a Very British dude is up. Look out for: this cross letter insisting that excessively fat people should stop living off others and Take Responsibility a long list of novels set in the Middle Ages (all of which look pretty ghastly to me, but you shouldn’t judge […]
Is belatedly linked to by me here, hosted by Cabalamat. Look out for Prodicus and a massive array of adjectives on the EU as a Stalinist plot, a point of view unappealing to one of his commenters who says it is instead a fascist plot. And Raedwald looks at liberating road traffic […]
Talking of Ghastly Diplomatic Moments, the dismal fate of British diplomat James Hudson prompted this magnificent sentence: his starring role opposite and under two local hookers brought an end to his tour of booty . . . er, duty: one portly bespectacled chap from Whitehall with his dressing gown hanging open quaffing champagne with a […]
Remember that far-reaching German Constitutional Court ruling qualifying the interpretation of the Lisbon Treaty? Spiegel Online International has a lot more: In essence, the court ruled that by passing the so-called "accompanying law" to the Lisbon Treaty, which determines the rights of German parliament to participate in European legislation, the […]
The Americans have a way with words: a good loser is a Loser. In other words, by contemplating the possibility of defeat yet remaining cheerful about it you psych yourself down – and help bring defeat about. Which brings us to President Obama’s recent remarkable off-hand thought: I’m always worried about […]
I was over at the UK’s international development department (DFID) today, talking about the current British attempts to ‘join up’ military and civilian efforts in world trouble-spots. As I was looking at these questions with both the benefit of years of insider experience and now the irresponsibility of non-office, it […]
Brian Barder tries to explain why he is of The Left: There is a broad left-to-right spectrum of values and priorities and most people can quickly see where on the spectrum they belong. The two ends of the spectrum may be summarised (in simplified form) like this: Liberty, human rights […]
Iain Dale is running his 2009 popularity survey of political blogging. But to register a vote for your favourite blogs, including eg this one, you must nominate a full ten blogs. No need to give a category. Last year this Blog made it into the Total Politics Top Twenty Libertarian […]
