Politics

Bankers, bonuses, bandwagons, the crisis of capital and the failure of government

February 5, 2012
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Stripping Fred the Shred of his honour and vilifying Stephen Hester shows politicians at their most irrelevant. An effective banking system is essential for a healthy economy. The free movement of capital in has funded the projects and industries which over the last 200 years have, with some obvious calamities along the way, driven the [...]

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Climate Change as Huhne Speeds towards Dock.

February 3, 2012

Not for Vicky Pryce the tried and tested methods of revenge; prawns in the curtain rail, dialing the speaking clock in Lagos, nor even the more exotic version perfected by Lady Sarah Moon: cutting off one arm of all his suits and delivering his wine to grateful villagers. She resisted the potentially criminal ‘Bobbit’ manoeuvre. [...]

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Skunk as a Lord?

February 3, 2012
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Skunk: A person regarded as obnoxious or despicable. Sir Fred has been shredded. But it was done with considerable input from a political lynch mob, and as a symbol of the banksters (= banker + gangsters), and I’m left with more questions than answers. Was it a correct decision, and was it made on a [...]

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Takes One to Know One.

February 2, 2012
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An absolutely barking quietly eccentric neighbour of mine was going home one day when he spied a baby buzzard sitting by the roadside. He thought he’d take it home with him; as you do. Once at home, he had great enjoyment out of training it to fly back to him for the reward of a [...]

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BBC supports the ‘right’ to smoke…

February 2, 2012
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What a delicious pickle the BBC and the left wingers have got themselves into. In a desperate attempt to portray the hardship that the proposed benefit cap will inflict on the most vulnerable in society, they have managed to enshrine smoking in the unofficial list of ‘human rights’ that tax payers must work to finance, [...]

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Body Image and the Feminist Agenda.

January 31, 2012
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‘Fat is a Feminist Ishooo’ ran the old joke. Many a true word spoken in jest. It is no secret that I have long believed Lynne Featherstone to be the only Liberal-Democrat worthy of being allowed anywhere near Government, so it was a disappointment this morning to read her latest offering on the subject of [...]

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In support of Laurie Penny

January 30, 2012
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Not a post I expected to be writing this afternoon; it was to be about Laurie’s interesting  comments on Channel 4 News last night. However, that’s been trumped, and this is now about online harrassment. One of the Youtube video’s of one of Laurie’s TV appearances over the weekend received this comment from a Twitter [...]

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