A Common European Language

May 8, 2012
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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known [...]

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The French Experiment

May 7, 2012
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We have a new experiment. Monsieur François Hollande est Le Président de la République. The most immediate effect is that we all have to find the cédille key on our computers for the first time since François Mitterrand, and that’s before blogging began. Perhaps this time we won’t need the circonflexe if he has fewer maîtresses (with or without tître) than [...]

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Does banning the internet work?

May 6, 2012
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So the government have managed to persuade a court to have access to The Pirate bay banned. They were persuaded by Digital Rights owners who managed to lobby the government into thinking that music is on it’s last legs unless the public are stopped from copying and ripping music. The major ISPs have been told [...]

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Suffer the Little Children

May 4, 2012

“But Jesus called them unto him, and said: Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Luke 18:16) Here are two pictures. These two men have something on common. Can you guess what it is? I am sure you got it at once. Yes, [...]

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The Philosophy of Post-Ideology (Part 2)

May 4, 2012
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I strive to legitimise the proactive use of common sense To no one theory should we have any adherence There’s not just one problem on which we should be focusing Nor a single strategy that we should be pursuing In lieu of the pluralist necessities of governing In practice, in reality, there’s a need for [...]

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Religious Fervour is Maddie-ness.

May 3, 2012

Buried in the archives of the Baltimore Sun is a newspaper clipping of a story that its author, H.L. Mencken, dubbed “The greatest story since the Resurrection”. A two year old child had apparently vanished into the night. A nation turned into armchair detectives, some appointed themselves judge and jury, along the way dispensing with [...]

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Sunny Hundal’s Political Full House

May 3, 2012
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(Trivia Warning: London Mayoral froth) Brilliant stuff from the Hundal Monster, explaining to the world from how he will be voting in the London Mayoral Election:  I said on Twitter today that I would be voting for Jenny Jones as my first preference and Ken Livingstone as my second preference. I wonder if the world [...]

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