Monthly Archives: March 2015

Potential and Actual Threats

From Dick Puddlecote: “there are potentially more cancer-forming chemicals within e-cigarettes than you’ve actually got in cigarettes per se themselves.” There are also potentially more cancer-forming chemicals in one of my cheese sandwiches. There are also potentially more cancer-forming  chemicals in … Continue reading

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Anti-Depressant-Driven, Suicidal, Homicidal, Lobotomized States

Last week, I started out thinking that the Germanwings air crash had most likely been caused by a sudden depressurization of the plane. But since the cockpit voice recorder was found, it’s emerged that the co-pilot locked himself in the … Continue reading

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It’s Happened Again

The clocks went forward an hour today in the UK. Or maybe they went back an hour. I’ve already forgotten which. Chris Snowdon has written a rather humorous piece about British Summer Time, and the objections raised against it, including … Continue reading

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Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey

In a time when democracy doesn’t seem to work any more, and politicians seem to be under the control of the EU or the UN or anybody but the people who elected them, it might be worth considering the end … Continue reading

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Hunter-gatherer Moralists with Cell Phones

More on lunatic “health” experts from James Delingpole: There was a letter to the Daily Telegraph last weekend which depressed me more than anything I’ve read in ages. It reported the visit by a social worker to an elderly woman … Continue reading

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Creeping Fascism

Well, that didn’t take long. Last night I wrote: The next revelation might well be that she’s actually the real public health minister, and Jane Ellison is just one of her stooges. H/T Taking Liberties, Deborah Arnott has gone one better … Continue reading

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Who Runs The Government?

I wrote last night that the government will always do whatever ASH tells them to do. H/T Simon Clark, we now perhaps know why. Breaking news. Whether by accident or design, public health minister Jane Ellison has just revealed what we all … Continue reading

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In The Pocket of ASH

Too sleepy to even think tonight. So here’s Dick Puddlecote on ASH’s latest wheeze: Paul Burstow is a particularly oleaginous, one-track minded anti-smoker who is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smoking and Health. This group is … Continue reading

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In What Year?

The Ebola epidemic drags on: Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the head of the United Nations mission against the Ebola virus in Africa, told the BBC he expects the outbreak that began in February 2014 to be vanquished “by the end … Continue reading

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Isn’t Antismoking Anti-American?

The smoker Petunia Winegum, writing sympathetically about smoking on Anna Raccoon.. Virginia tobacco plantations provided a fast track to a fortune for enterprising British colonists as, regardless of the odd voice raised against the practice, the smoking of the addictive … Continue reading

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