Chris Grayling is halfwit http://bit.ly/RQQwb #Britainisntbrokenyouridiculousjokers # Blimey, the right-whingers are going mental at Kennedy's death. I reckon "40 years political service" outweighs "once crashed a car" # The phrase "I'm not being funny" is almost invariably correct. # Early night w00t # Complete this sentence: "Fraser Nelson is the new ...." # Anton Vowl … Continue reading What I’ve been up to, week ending 2009-08-30
Month: August 2009
To Commentisfree, which is running one of the more embarassing pieces of po-faced Spartery I've seen outside a student union: A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were watching TV at home when the advert for comparethemarket.com appeared on our screen. I had seen the ad before and not thought anything of it. However … Continue reading Very simples indeed
The Awl is brilliant (www.theawl.com) - and no, I'm not getting paid to say that # The staff of my local Pret have all gone on a jolly to New York, and been replaced by equally enthusiastic, but less ept, stand-ins. # CO2 emissions aside, I strongly approve of big co's sending baristas and sandwichmakers … Continue reading What I’ve been up to, week ending 2009-08-23
Oddly enough, much of the best commentary on the thoroughly deserved release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has come from rightish-libertarians: DK, Longrider, Longrider again. (I don't mean that right-ish libertarians are unlikely to provide sensible comment in general, just that "releasing alleged terrorist" and "annoying America" are things that, all else being equal, are things … Continue reading On al-Megrahi
Top tip: if the only wine in the house is undrinkably foul & white, and you're out of Creme de Cassis, mix with Ribena for a Value Kir # Top tip #2: pork marinaded in port, soy, vinegar and mustard is almost as good as using red wine. #hopingmailordercasearrivestomorrow # Rule of thumb: anything the … Continue reading What I’ve been up to, week ending 2009-08-16
In the unlikely event that you've fallen for the absurd myth "US healthcare is really expensive because they pay for the rest of the world's drug development"... Total global pharma R&D spending was US$53bn for 2004 (it won't have order-of-magnitude changed since then). US healthcare spending was US$2.4 trillion for 2007. So even if you … Continue reading That ‘Americans pay for drug R&D’ point