June 9, 2009
The British Honours system stinks. It must be about the best honours system that money can buy. Knighthoods and life peerages are doled out to time-serving chancers, place-seeking chanty wrasslers, party hacks being put out to grass, and deep-pocketed donors to party funds. New Labour’s Honours list keeps up this tradition. Substantial donors to New [...]
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June 8, 2009
When serfs knew their place, there was some logic in sending the Lord of the Manor to speak for them in parliament. The local land owner, the local employer, possibly was the person best suited to auditing the King’s power of taxation and warmongering. Parliament has been left behind in in the surge of education [...]
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