Nutt job
I hope anyone who’s going to the pub tonight takes sensible precautions, and brings a straw: According to Nutt, the optimal dose is 5gm a day, which is about a third of a glass of wine or half a pint … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Government
Quote of the Day
From Diogenes in the comments (I’ve added some links): For yet one more example of WTF is a Conservative Govt doing by supporting such an odious thing, take a look at this so-called charity – Fairshare Educational Foundation … Continue reading →
If you can’t get rid of the BBC, bring it to heel and shrink it
Yesterday I wrote about disbanding the BBC and Channel 4. This, I think, is the best course of action a Conservative government could take. But it’s a course of action that the Johnson government is extremely unlikely to take, plus … Continue reading →
The BBC and Ch 4 need to be crushed
In a notorious talk given to Conservative Future in 2009, Sean Gabb made the following radical recommendation: On the first day of your government, you should close down the BBC. You should take it off air. You should disclaim its … Continue reading →
Loose change for trains
There was a lot of excitement on Friday over the news that the Conservatives say they’re going to reverse Dr Beeching’s railway closures: Boris Johnson will reinstate local railway lines axed under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s as part … Continue reading →
The bonfire that never was
There’s no shortage of bad unconservative things the Conservative government have failed to in the last decade. And no shortage of good conservative things they’ve failed to do. So it’s hard to decide what their worst, most damaging failure has … Continue reading →
Coalditz
I’m right behind all these people who want the coal mines opened again. Open all the old ones, and hundred new ones, I say! Ignore the climate change objections, they’re bollocks. Only question is… who’s going to work in them? … Continue reading →
Tommy Robinson’s treatment proves that governments don’t change much
Amazing garbage from the Telegraph about Tommy Robinson: One might imagine that a man of Robinson’s beliefs would want to stick to British help rather than the imported variety. But that misses an important fact about the hard Right in Britain. It … Continue reading →
Bang bang, lie down, you’re dead
This is actually a good idea: German soldiers used broomsticks painted black instead of guns during a joint Nato exercise last year due to severe equipment shortages, it has emerged. The incident took place during exercises for Nato’s rapid … Continue reading →
Philip Hammond lies ands lies, and then lies some more
The Chancellor warns over Johnson and Hunt’s plans to cut taxes and spend more, which is fair enough. (Personally I think the tax cuts are a good idea, but not the extra spending.) But what is astonishing in what Hammond … Continue reading →
How not to argue for HS2
The Chairman of the Midlands Industrial Council, one Johnny Leavesley, tries to present a case for HS2. And does a piss-poor effort. He starts off acknowledging that the case against seems pretty good, admitting, for example, that “The sums involved … Continue reading →
The sideswipe
I’ve now got around to responding to a question asked of me by commentator Penseivat in regards to the discussion about getting roads open quicker after accidents. (Penseivat seems to be a generally sound and sensible fellow who has posed me … Continue reading →
Searching all night for the tell-tale skid mark
The incredible length of time it takes to re-open roads after accidents in the UK is yet another way in which the ruling powers are completely disconnected from ordinary people. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for … Continue reading →
The modern primary school
I visited a primary school today. Do you want to know if it lived up to the stereotype of a modern school or not? Well, the first thing I saw when I came in was climate change messages everywhere. Then … Continue reading →
Another type of disguised thieving
The government helps itself to more private property: A rare page from Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species has been barred from leaving the UK by the government as a buyer is sought. Look, I can understand the attraction … Continue reading →