Yes, the time to vote in the TP survey comes round again. Here’s the link if you want to put in a good word for this site. You also must vote for four other UK blogs – Anna Raccoon and Tim Worstall will do for starters.
Yes, the time to vote in the TP survey comes round again. Here’s the link if you want to put in a good word for this site. You also must vote for four other UK blogs – Anna Raccoon and Tim Worstall will do for starters.
Here’s one cutesy Londoner who superficially has everything going for her. Apart from a brain and rudimentary self-control. Meet the pitiful Chelsea Ives, London Olympics Ambassador. Her heroic parents turned her in to the police: There were a lot of tears. She did not try to stop us phoning the police, […]
Almost the defining characteristic of an active sense of community is that it is only aroused when people perceive that the established structures of control are failing. And while that might result in a lot of engagement, it is too volatile to be trusted Here she is. Zoe Williams, Guardian […]
The police cannot be everywhere at once, unless you hold the above to be true, and accept the seventh Peelian Principle: Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the […]
They know they can get away with it, because people are calling this rioting not stealing This Guardian article has plenty of interesting quotes, whichever side of the ‘root causes’ argument you favour.
++ Crass sexism alert ++ If you are trying to make me sound like a blinkered, narrow-minded sexist who believes a woman’s place is in the kitchen dressing a 1,200-pound moose she took down out back at dawn, you are absolutely right Vile. Quiet vile.
Here’s my take on the Riots: For a gold-plated example of progressive sneering, check out the Nobel Prize lecture of Harold Pinter: ‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either […]
The State never stops ringing – and it doesn’t take no for an answer. Take a mere minute from your life to watch this utter masterpiece:
Here is what the Express says is the text of a strange letter from PM David Cameron’s political private secretary Laurence Mann to a ‘Conservative activist’ (that one seems like a contradiction in terms, but never mind) on the subject of the UK’s membership of the European Union and why an […]
Andrzej Lepper, turbulent leader of Poland’s left-populist Self-Defence party, yesterday was found dead. Apparently by hanging himself in his party office in Warsaw Where to start? The English Wikipedia page gives the basics of his lively career, describing how he came from a modest rural family background and with little formal education […]
