House of Commons

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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Animal Right’s Activists.

June 14, 2010

When Peter Singer contrasted the ability of a prawn swimming across Botany Bay and making a choice whether to turn left or right, with the lack of ability to make a choice on the part of a new born baby – he concluded that the right to life was intrinsically tied to a being’s capacity [...]

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The Women in Parliament.

November 7, 2009

Back when Noah was still drawing up the blueprint for his Ark, long before I was born, my Aunt stood against a certain Bessie Braddock as Conservative candidate for St Anne’s Ward in Liverpool. Aunty vanished without trace of course, apart from one vote found lying under the counting officer’s table, probably, though not certainly, [...]

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