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Month: April 2008

Bit of politics, The generic nonsense you love

If you disagree with this, you have no soul and no brain

Simon Jenkins: No good is served by incarcerating an illiterate drugs "mule" in Holloway for 14 years for a first offence when she had no clue what she was doing and has left four children on the streets of Jamaica. She will be sent back in seven years, after Britain has spent £250,000 turning her … Continue reading If you disagree with this, you have no soul and no brain

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April 30, 20081 Comment
Bit of politics

Final mayoralty

Diamond Geezer's coverage of the mayoral race has been entirely on fire. The latest, possibly last, and definitely funniest summary of the campaign I've so far seen, is the London Mayoral Hustings 2012: Paxman: Ahhhhh yes, transport. What are your priorities for the next four years? Boris: Crossrail, yes, er, that's something I'd really like … Continue reading Final mayoralty

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April 30, 2008Leave a comment
Financial arcana

More clarifications of the obvious

If you think that Gordon Brown carried out a tax raid on pensions in 1997, which was the main cause of the end of final-salary pension schemes in the UK private sector, then you are wrong. In 1997, the government did indeed abolish the tax relief on dividends paid by firms into pension funds. But … Continue reading More clarifications of the obvious

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April 29, 20089 Comments
Bit of politics

Reality check

David Aaronovitch is one of the few Decent-ists that I like and respect. So it's good to see him stating the obvious truths that more or less everyone (whether left or right) has forgotten as we descend in to a Cassandrine orgy of unwarranted gloom: Taking modern Britain, for all that any country is beset … Continue reading Reality check

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Fiends and flamily

Just as well they didn’t have t’Internet back then

As one ought, I've been looking up my ancestors (well, people with my not-especially-common surname) on the Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913 website. There's a disappointing lack of criminality among my lot. Only three Bands were prosecuted at the Old Bailey over the whole period, and one of them was acquitted, whereas we seem … Continue reading Just as well they didn’t have t’Internet back then

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April 28, 20081 Comment
Bit of politics, Not at all sarcastic

Ready to face any challenge

Diamond Geezer has an excellent piece on the sterling work that Boris Johnson has done in eradicating crime, misery, poverty, racial disharmony, etc from the town of Henley, and how useful this experience will be if he's elected Mayor of London... Would throbbing multicultural London (population seven and a half million) be a better place … Continue reading Ready to face any challenge

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April 28, 2008Leave a comment
Bit of politics

A note to excitable lefties

Whatever else it may be, a walk-out among well-educated civil servants over not getting the same large pay rises they've received for most of the last 10 years is not The Workers Sticking It To The Man.

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April 25, 20081 Comment
Bit of politics

Gun crime is getting worse

No, not "more severe", just "less effective": Firearms offences also increased, up 4% in the whole of 2007 to 9,967... however, gun deaths fell to 49, seven fewer than in the previous 12 months. What's wrong with kids today? I'm fairly sure that even when I was 15, I could have achieved a better-than-0.5% hit-rate... … Continue reading Gun crime is getting worse

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April 24, 20085 Comments
Gimpy internet nonsense

A lie has a good ending

Today's "this is what the Internet was invented for" site is the automatic random proverb generator. Favourites it's given me include: Blood is thicker than the eye of the beholder. He who lives by the sword shall die by a vacuum. A little learning is money. Quality stuff. From B3ta, obviously. As is this link: … Continue reading A lie has a good ending

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April 19, 20081 Comment
Bit of politics, The generic nonsense you love

Quote of the day

"Can someone please explain on what basis I am supposed to care more about the plight of the white working classes than that of, say, Congolese people driven out of their homes by war?" (an oasis of sanity in a thread dominated by horrible bigots)

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April 18, 20088 Comments

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