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 [HD: aka ShareAction]. The main areas of charitable activity are in campaigning and education of […]
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 there are other problems with it, such as likely court action in a hostile anti-Conservative […]
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 copyrights. You should throw all its staff into the street … You must shut it […]
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 of a package of measures to rejuvenate provincial towns. Some said it was a great […]
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 been (but feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments). But there is […]
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? Most of the old miners have got better jobs now, and they ain’t going back. […]
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 is reliant on overseas help because there are so few people in Britain who want […]
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 response force, formed in reaction to the Ukraine crisis, which is supposed to be ready […]
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 has said is the brazen chutzpah – in other words, the brazen lie – in […]
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 are vast”. So what’s he got in favour? Our economy needs rebalancing. It is a […]
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 some genuine questions , so I owe him a proper response.) So, if you were […]
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 ages, and the time is now right, as Jeremy Clarkson has complained about it, and […]
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 I saw a noticeboard titled ‘STEM’, with a lot of papers pinned up on it. […]
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 of saying ‘This important historical artifact should stay in Britain’. But it’s not yours. I […]
I’ve come across a wonderful EU website that tells you all about the money they’re spending on their amazing projects in the UK, region by region. What a great resource. An alternative viewpoint is that what we have here is a useful website for showing you how the EU is wasting your money in the […]
The MP said that the rise of fast fashion, where t-shirts are sold for just £2 and dresses for £5, means clothes are worn once then thrown away, where they end up in landfill. So says yet another a Labour MP who hates the fact that more products are now cheap enough for poor people […]
In the Telegraph yesterday: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is now under fresh pressure to provide evidence on fake news and ads after politicians in the UK and Canada today jointly called for him to appear before an International Grand Committee in London. In a letter penned to Mr Zuckerberg today, Damian Collins, chair […]
The working class insists on the middle-class ‘sharing the wealth’, without most of them realising that this means that the middle-class oversees the sharing of the wealth, which results in an awful lot of it going to the sort of middle-class people that the overseers like, and the feckless poor, and foreigners. There’s very little […]
In days long past middle-class women liked to drink a fizzy wine called champagne. Then a group of snooty champagne makers got the EU to declare that only their champagnes could legally be called champagnes. Thus began a long, never-ending battle involving large amounts of taxpayers money, and private producers’ money, being spent on pointless […]
Another Theresa May government minister starts preparing the way for more government intervention in the private sphere: Highly-addictive video games risk having a “damaging” impact on children’s lives, the Culture Secretary has warned after parents raised concerns about a hugely popular multi-player “survival shooter”. I propose the fairy tale response. You want to talk to […]