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Too clever for your own good
Even before the Duke of Gloucester had berated Edward Gibbon for his "thick, square book", the encouragement of ignorance was already a powerful force in the English speaking world.
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Open season in the NHS
Tim Montgomerie, the editor of the ConservativeHome.com blog has suggested that the NHS budget should lose its ring-fenced status; I think he is fundamentally wrong, and is completely mistaken in this proposal, wrong about the nature of the NHS and wrong about the rationale for its very existence, I also think that similar suggestions come from a dark cavernous recess of highly dubious instrumental reason and fetid dogma, rather than being the result of any well thought out, coherent, cohesive and humane rationale. Of course, I could be wrong. This is speculation and opinion after all. Occasionally, some things are...
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Stupid Boys and Tall Stories
The stupid things idiots will claim in support of their own brand of nationalism and in opposition to other people's brand of nationalism.
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http://www.itsmarty.com hacked - commenting suspended
Dear All, Due to a malicious piece of site hacking I have had to unfortunately block commenting on this blog for the time being.
I will reactivate the comments facility when I have the chance to upgrade the software to the level required to prevent hacking attempts that disrupt the site.
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With friends like these: Israel and the non-Jewish right
WORK IN PROGRESS
When little boys and girls have more hate and blind prejudice than reason:
Vile and nasty comments that I have encountered on The Guardian's CiF blog pages from so-called supporters of Israel.
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Palin, Letterman and the Outrage of Moral Shysters
Me: Would you care to explain yourself?
Just to qualify the comment. Compared to killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children based on duff intelligence and lies, it was a very small error of judgement.
Now go back to your shapes, colours, sounds, lights .....
ContedeQuincy: Look at your past posts and you'll soon find out why. I really would not like to add "selective amnesia" to the list.
Me: Ok, so let's assume I have "selective amnesia". Just what are you refer
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Geoffrey Alderman and a Disservice to Fascism
Geoffrey Alderman, commenting on the comments section of an article by Seth Freedman, It's not British fascists we should fear, wrote:
geoffreyalderman
12 Jun 09, 4:07pm (about 1 hour ago)
Seth, can we at least agree that anyone who calls the BNP "fascist" does a serious disservice to the political ideology known as "fascism?"
Geoffrey Alderman
Is it me, or is this a bizarre defence of fascist ideology?
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Rapid Response Team Replies to Peter Tatchell and Fellow Travellers
You just couldn't make it up! The following is a statement issued by The Righwing Rapid Response Team in response to an alarming and malicious article published by known leftwing green guardianista Peter Tatchell, who goes by the name of "Peter Tatchell", and which was published today (or yesterday) in The Guardian. And which has been supported by a number of treasonous and traitorous Britain hating, minority supporting, LGBT loving, race denying, feminazi gits!
Today, we call upon every upst
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European and Local Elections - June 2009
The election results were not entirely unexpected. So, PR represented the will of the people who actually bothered to get out and vote. Whether you like the outcome or not, and there are things that I am not particular happy about, e.g. 2 seats for the BNP, but that's a part of representative democracy.
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European Socialists: Defiant in disarray?
Ilana Bet-El writing for The Guardian's Comment is Free online blog has been making some rather odd claims about European socialism and socialists. Even though these articles are opinion pieces, I would have expected something a little bit less speculative and less simplistic - whether the conclusions were right or wrong. Anyway, the opinion piece is along the lines of: "European socialism: defiant in disarray - The European right are sitting ducks – so why are the socialists still shooting ea
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Racist Incident and Police Stupidity
I am a person of habit. Today I went to the Cordoba May Fair. I walked down to the town square, as I always do, and took the bus to the fair ground.
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Recondite Antisemtism on the Right
There have been numerous claims on various blogs that the European left provides a home to racism and anti-Semitism. This "work in progress" blog entry will be used to highlight the anti-Semitic remarks of the so called right-wing "friends of Israel"; friends, as in "with friends like these, who needs enemies?".
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Don't Just Throw Money At It
Just like the awful management of British industry in the 20th century, the answer to every conceivable problem to do with the present financial crisis is to throw large wads of cash at it. However, this time it's worse, because it's serious amounts cash that has to be borrowed, and then paid back.
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Comment is free, facts are sacred, libel is fine!
The following exchange of "opinions" took place on The Guardian´s Comment is Free online forum. My original complaint was focused on the comparison of Gaza with Stalingrad, and the implication that the Hamas organisation was somehow a Palestinian version of the Red Guard and the brave defenders of Stalingrad. I'm not sure that the person accusing me of being Hamas friendly - a charge that I absolutely deny, not least because I consider Hamas to be horrible at best - has even read my views on the
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WIth friends like these, who needs enemies?
On Sunday the 7th of September 2008, the online Comment is Free section of the Guardian featured an article by Denis MacShane, that basically argued that if "trade union leaders indulge in destructive rhetoric, they will only have themselves to blame if Labour loses the next election". The title of the article was "With comrades like these".
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Postmodernism in Politics
In an essay entitled “Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth” Dean Geuras, Professor of Philosophy at the Southwest Texas State University wrote:
There is much that both Christians and non Christians can learn and apply from the dead-ended emptiness of postmodernism. More here!
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Seven Kids from The Valleys
Where Libyan monsters yell,
From the most gloomy glens
Of Greenland’s sunless clime,
To where the golden fields
Of fertile England spread
Their harvest to the day,
Thou canst not find one spot
Whereon no city stood.
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BERNIE (THE FASTEST HEDGE FUND IN THE WEST)
You could hear the dollar fall, then it crashed upon the ground,
And the chatter from the White House as they spun, 'round and 'round.
And he glided into Wall Street, his scam under his vest,
His name was Bernie, and he sold the slickest secret in the west.