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Snip! Snip!

October 24, 2011 8 comments
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Ah, those terrible cuts! We have protests, we have rage, we have the incomprehensible irony of people occupying public spaces against global capitalism, while yakking on their spanking new iPhone 4S’s and sipping a Starbucks decaf skinny vanilla cappucino. And we have people complaining bitterly that their sense of egregious entitlement is being attacked by [...]

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Imagine

October 12, 2011 41 comments
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Close your eyes and imagine this scenario: although no-one is particularly complaining about some vague and menacing-sounding situation involving children, the government has decided that it has to be seen to be doing something. And given a broad range of possible options including making parents aware of things that maybe they hadn’t considered through to [...]

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From Flight to Reality.

November 30, 2010 11 comments

It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression. His latest alleged ‘gaffe’ was to say that: “We’re going to have a system where the middle [...]

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