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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Government Lobbying Government
Dick Puddlecote’s favourite MP in action. An MP has called for an investigation into the “improper funding relationship” between Britain’s Department for Health (DH) and an anti-smoking lobby group. Philip Davies MP made the demand after revelations that DH granted … Continue reading
The Death of Labour’s Working Class Support
Interesting piece in the Telegraph: Labour’s working class support has “died” as the party becomes “very middle class”, an advisor to Ed Miliband has said. Lord Glasman, the policy guru ennobled by Mr Miliband, said Labour voters who defected to … Continue reading
Should Britons Own Guns?
Something I wrote a few days ago became the topic of a conversation today: I used to think it was a good thing that there were no guns in the UK. But now that I see civil war looming on the … Continue reading
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Cold Coffee
Another example of interfering EU micro-management: Filter coffee machines will have to turn off automatically to help save energy, under new European Union rules. All of the devices on sale for domestic use from next year will be required to … Continue reading
Tit For Tat
H/T Harley a couple of days back for this story. The city of San Rafael in California has passed what is believed to be the strictest smoking ban in the country. The law specifically bans smoking inside your own home. … Continue reading
Two Faces of the EU.
First, the Ukrainian crisis seems only to be deepening: Commandos have moved on the separatist stronghold of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine days after a new “anti-terrorist” operation was announced. A number of casualties were reported among the separatists as the … Continue reading
Changes
Following on from yesterday’s post, since the 2007 smoking ban I’ve found my attitudes to all sorts of things changing. For example, I used not to be bothered by people who were antismoking. Quite a few of my friends had … Continue reading
The Implosion of the Political Establishment
I’m rather looking forward to the European elections next month. In the Telegraph, Paul Sykes – UKIP’s principal source of funding – wrote: In all but name, May 22 is a referendum on our membership of the EU, with a … Continue reading
Identity Politics
Various things that caught my eye. Via EUreferendum, Christopher Booker: But, as ever more people seem to recognise, the most damaging price we pay for the BBC’s near-monopoly of the airwaves is the way it imposes on our national culture … Continue reading
Prediction Replaces Reality
In February last year I was a bit shaken that, on the same day that asteroid 2012 DA14 passed about 30,000 km from the Earth, another rock slammed into Russia over Chelyabinsk. It got me wondering whether the two rocks … Continue reading
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