Showing posts with label idiots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idiots. Show all posts
Friday, 8 February 2019

Yes. People really are this stupid...

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In the Guardian obviously: I don’t know whether the left has been sleeping, but there has been a dominant narrative that has remained qui...
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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

The Great Left Wing Intellectual Debate: A Guide

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I read this article. I'd share it with you but I can't find it. Thing is it said that the level of intellectual debate on "the...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

How would Satan vote?

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The one thing that has struck me most forcibly about the Donald Trump campaign is the extent to which it is a coalition of conspiracy theori...
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Monday, 4 April 2016

The Tale of Peter Who Thought Things Weren't Made In Britain

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**** The alarm rings and our economic nationalist awakes - we'll call him Peter. Rising from slumbering in his Silentnight bed (made i...
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Friday, 11 March 2016

This is it? Seriously? Devolution should be about a whole lot more than buses and new taxes

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**** Some chap from IPPR North has bunged his challenge to 'metro mayors' , you know the powerful folk who'll be elected once ...
Saturday, 12 September 2015

The Labour Party may be dead. All the noise and flag-waving means we haven't yet noticed.

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The Labour Party Part of me wants to crack open the champagne, let off party poppers and party the night away - after all I'm a ...
Monday, 27 April 2015

In Praise of Idiots Redux

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Michael White, that most Guardianista of Guardianistas, has had a pop at the electorate : But millions more, not just the poor and d...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

On blocking access...a slight rant

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**** I sent an email entitled "a slight rant". It went like this: Hi, Corporate Overview & Scrutiny are running a rev...
Monday, 10 February 2014

In which I angrily disassociate myself from most Tory MPs

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"It's for the children" they cry and reel out carefully pre-packaged statistics showing how millions of kids are killed, mai...
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Thursday, 30 January 2014

Why the default political action should be to do nothing...

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**** “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanat...
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Sunday, 21 July 2013

Is anyone paying attention....

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**** Over the years I've remarked often that most people, most of the time, simply aren't remotely interested in politics. More to...
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Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Robots are great and we need more of them to make stuff for us...

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**** I get ever more irritated by the bonkers notion that technological advance and improvement is a bad thing for the economy. You see it...
Sunday, 14 August 2011

Educating future lawyers...

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**** Let me introduce you to Dr Ian Grigg-Spall : Dr. Ian Grigg-Spall is Director of Studies of all undergraduate law courses at the U...
Thursday, 4 August 2011

Why? (Now updated - with the answer)

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*** Graham has an e-cigar - part of his ongoing endeavour to stop smoking. And the Assocation of Conservative Clubs have "advised...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Economics quote of the day

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**** From @MediocreDave on twitter: Think it's deeply flawed to suggest there is objective evidence for competition providing better...

Alcohol Concern Cymru - the most ignorant of nannying fussbuckets

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**** Although BBC Wales does its best to make Alcohol Concern Cymru not seem like a bunch of idiots even they can't quite manage it wi...
Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Are national newspaper journalists really, really stupid?

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*** Cigarette may have started M1 blaze Look it's pretty simple, we get a huge blaze in a scrap yard that closes the M1. And it wasn...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

"Rubbing two sticks together" - the Green Party's energy policy

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**** Britain's Green Party - led by that nannying fussbucket, Caroline Lucas - have an energy policy . 1. Investment in renewable so...
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Monday, 20 September 2010

We are all idiots: thoughts on democracy and representation

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Since the lovely Anna Raccoon featured my ancient little piece praising idiots on her blog recently I feel inspired to a little update on ...
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Idiots revisited (again)

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*** A while ago I wrote in praise of idiots about those ordinary people who don’t partake of politics: The ancient Greeks used their word f...
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