ethics

Epic Dickwaddery at the New Statesman

July 23, 2011
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Welcome to visitors from Order-Order – we appreciate the visit. If you enjoy this article, you can follow Anna Raccoon on Twitter here, or to do so via our RSS feed click here. If one of your friends publishes an article on the website of a national magazine that is not to your taste, what [...]

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Bernie’s Reign Dance.

February 21, 2011
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Petrol heads the world over have, for this week only, taken their heads out of Autosport and turned to the mainstream media, unaccustomedly consumed by an interest in International Politics. Whilst the Bahrain Motorsport Website continues to run advertisements such as ‘Experience Fun in the Fast Lane’ the bloodied bodies of demonstrators lay across all [...]

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Killing The Sacred Cow

February 16, 2011

And so it ends, the National Compact first dreamt up in the dying days of the Second World War called the Welfare State. The Welfare State was always a ponzi scheme of gigantic proportions, that relied on the next round of investors paying out to the first batch of ‘investors’. The only difference between the [...]

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Gang, Bang!

February 5, 2011

Regular readers will know that I have a passing interest in history, and like to post from a constant perspective on life  that there is nothing new under the sun. Recently SadButmadLad’s post on Minister for Silly Crimes contained a reference to an article on “gang culture” in Victorian times and reminded me that many [...]

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What is ‘Justice’ ?

January 28, 2011

I watched a programme on BBC 4 recently called ‘Justice -a citizens guide‘ by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel who is a political philosopher. It was beyond excellent, even though Sandel is a reluctant communitarian, which I am not. It was the first time in my life I had actually considered what the word ‘Justice’ means, [...]

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Oh the lies! The lies!

August 3, 2010

Frank Davis and Leg Iron are predicting a ban on E-cig sales based on a letter from Sussex Trading Standards written by a Helen Wade. In her letter Ms Wade said that e-cigs would be banned within 3 weeks on the say so of the Medical and Healthcare Products Advisory Agency. Of course the utterly [...]

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The British Government and Torture.

July 18, 2010

On Friday, the High Court gave permission for a judicial review of the government’s failure to hold a public inquiry into the UK’s alleged complicity in the torture of a large number of civilians. The abuse they have documented includes 59 allegations of detainees being hooded, 11 of electric shocks, 122 of sound deprivation through [...]

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