Craig Murray weighs in hard against what he calls Iain Dale’s stinking hypocrisy: Most of you appear to read this blog at work, as readership drops at the weekend. So please do look at this piece I did on the really appalling hypocrisy of Tory blogger Iain Dale: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/iain_dale_is_a.html#comments Iain has […]
Eeek. According to Nick Cohen in the Observer the Cameron Conservatives are heading for the Outer Darkness: After the European elections, British Conservatives will leave the company of Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Fredrik Reinfeldt and the other moderate centre-right leaders who gather under the banner of European People’s party. Although […]
Here (h/t Instapundit) is an analysis of why US trains are slower now than they were decades ago: The aforementioned Montreal Limited, for example, circa 1942, would pull out of New York’s Grand Central Station at 11:15 p.m., arriving at Montreal’s (now defunct) Windsor Station at 8:25 a.m., a little […]
Most mornings I have to take out Lilly the Dog for a bracing walk in the British ountryside. As I trudge through the fields I muse on the transience of things. These fields near where we are were once were part of a large estate, which in the past century […]
The excellent site Picking Losers has this piece on the dys-economics of offshore wind power, which gives us various graphs. They appear to suggest that the more we invest in them, the less economical they become! Conclusion: It all shows that claims that you can calculate what technologies need, rather […]
Brian Micklethwait has compiled a handy list of British libertarian blogs of different shapes and sizes. And very distracting it is too. PM Gordon Brown gets grilled on his dodgy expenses at Capitalists@Work. And Nanny Knows Best has several postings on the murderous implications of buying teaspoons at local UK […]
Having railed against President Bush’s terror-suspect interrogation policies, the Democrat leadership in the USA is struggling to explain why at one point they quietly endorsed them. Read about this hopeless performance by N Pelosi. Or even better watch it – the nervous swallowing is most instructive, as is the babbling once the confident […]
Remember the Really Perfect Crime? Thus: The Really Perfect Crime is not defined by the fact that no-one knows who did it. Instead it is to commit a truly atrocious deed and then arrange things so that we all know exactly who did it – but prefer to look away from the victim, to […]
Part of the problem with the drama of expenses/corruption among Westminster MPs is that the very role of MPs and of Parliament is under heavy erosion. Take this for example (my emphasis added): The European Union now produces four major pieces of legislation every week, and a tide of other […]
