Showing posts with label pleasure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pleasure. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 October 2016

Scribblings - on pubs, snooker, loneliness and the curse of time

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I don't know about you but I think pubs are pretty important. Mostly because they sell beer and people I like go there but also because ...
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Saturday, 8 October 2016

How public health and temperance campaigners exploit children

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Prohibition and temperance aren't the children of health concerns but rather the offspring of a certain type of christian judgmentalis...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015

The simulated city...

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**** Super article by Richard Reep in New Geography contrasting the traditional US downtown with what he calls the 'simulated city...
Sunday, 29 June 2014

Why do authorities fear public gatherings so much?

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**** We were in Dent . It's lovely place and you should visit - winding cobbled streets, at least three drinking places and it's ...
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

The Hegemony of Nanny

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Hilaire Belloc penned a cautionary tale about Jim who ran away from nurse and was eaten by a lion. It ends like this: When Nurse inf...
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Quote of the day - what addiction isn't...

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**** From Chris Snowdon : As a general rule of thumb, if someone tells you that cupcakes or smartphones are "as addictive as co...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

Leisure and pleasure not tax and regulation - how to transform the high street

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  Next week Bradford will be debating a motion calling for a levy on 'large retailers' the revenue from which would be used by t...
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Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Rules...

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We went to watch the fireworks. We do this every year. And each time they brighten up the night for a fleeting moment of excitement and pl...
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Friday, 27 July 2012

I love the Olympics...

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**** Corruption, favouritism, private roads, brand fascism, a naff logo, oppresive security and bureaucratic incompentance - for the past ...
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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Bang!

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I thought that some fine words would come to accompany this photograph - taken during the finale to the 'Classical Fantasia' concert...
Thursday, 7 July 2011

Tenets of the New Puritans #2: "It's for the children" - the curse of the play strategy

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“It’s for the children” or “think of the children” has become a core mantra for the New Puritan – we should hide cigarettes and alcohol just...
Monday, 2 August 2010

Liberalisation works but that won't stop the New Puritans banning your pleasures

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*** Some will have watched the programme on Channel 4 this evening pointing out the extent to which out drugs policies – all of them – are ...
Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Wednesday Whimsy: Remembering a White Christmas

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I was nine when I experienced my first white Christmas. My memory may be a little rose-tinted but we’d set off to walk to midnight mass at O...