Have I slipped into some cross-dimensional wormhole? Chicken Yoghurt gives some attention to a largely ignored leaked memo from Downing Street, and highlights the scariest excerpts of the transcription by the Sunday Times. While this is no joking matter, and provides further evidence of Tony Blair’s duplicity, the whole sordid affair could almost be fictional. […]
There’s an excellent post by Nosemonkey on The Sharpener on the subject of Britain’s EU rebate. I’m very glad of the existence of The Sharpener, with contributors from more than one political angle. It’s where the best posts of other blogs end up if they’ve been good and brushed their teeth before bedtime. And while […]
It’s Friday afternoon, and I’m in a flippant mood. Have a read of Freedom and Whisky’s suggestion here. Me, I’d call it in. In the ensuing stock market crash, we could revert to the Dark Ages and feel free to wear hoodies again.
From BBC news: Jack says no to poll. Chicken! Also from the BBC, an idiot’s guide to the EU constitution: Division of Responsibilities What the constitution says: The EU already has rights to legislate over external trade and customs policy, the internal market, the monetary policy of countries in the eurozone, agriculture and fisheries and […]
From a letter to the Guardian (emphasis mine): Abolish the debt burden Today is World Debt Day. As on every day, poor countries will pay $100m to the rich world in debt payments. And preventable poverty will kill 30,000 children. This injustice must be stopped. Seven years ago today, 70,000 people formed a human chain […]
Singabloodypore discusses my mother tongue: Singlish Under Attack Again, and makes the observation that “Sometimes I think certain leaders have some sort of inferiority complex or are they ashamed of their own people?”. To quote from a quote from the post: Singapore’s prime minister launched the country’s latest behaviour modification campaign on Friday, urging teachers […]
Switched on BBC Parliament to watch the new Parliament being sworn in, and the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons. According to parliament.uk, the Speaker does not campaign on party issues when seeking re-election at the GE, a point that Alex Salmond drew attention to when referring to Michael Martin’s overwhelming majority […]
Singapore threatens to sue internet dissenter . More links in the Guardian’s newsblog. Some links with background: From The Spill Over Ink: Blog Obituary: caustic.soda by AcidFlask From Singabloodypore: Singapore Blogger ‘Apologised Unreservedly’ To A*Star From From a Singapore Angle: Straits Times steps into the breech / TODAY tries again
One thing this election has shown me is the validity of the SNP’s argument for independence. The map is very blue down England-way, with the exception of the South West (Cornwall) and a few Uni towns (e.g. Southampton) being quite orange. So, if PR is brought in to the benefit of the Tories, as Jarndyce […]
Spent a pleasant afternoon sunning ourselves and reading the Sunday papers in the Botanics. Reading about the Cabinet reshuffle and ever-present Blair/Brown divide was depressing. It’s almost as if there was no election, and it’s business as usual. Scrapping behind the scenes. Blair as bullish as ever, and misinterpreting the message voters were sending (deliberately, […]
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