…kill a social worker.”
[Alexei Sayle's favourite charity]
I’m so very glad that Mrs. Underclass and myself elected to have cats rather than children.
Of course it is true that most children are unable to demolish entire door-frames with their claws, and that they only rarely take a dump in one’s builder’s carefully-prepared, level ballast. Nor have [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Half a mark for a close guess
Posted in media, tagged bbc on 31 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Adrian Edmondson, the well-known comedian, comments in The Independent on the Ross/Brand affair:
What the millions are really complaining about is Brand’s success with women, and Ross’s extraordinary salary.
I have to point out that until this happened I had never heard of Russell Brand, and I should be entirely happy never to hear of him [...]
Well played, Sir
Posted in resistance, tagged Silver Avenger on 31 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Telegraph:
A poppy-wearing pensioner foiled a raid on a jewellers when he ripped a balaclava off a man armed with a sledgehammer… The have-a-go-hero, aged around 80, left the robber so stunned at being unmasked that he and his accomplice dropped their weapons and fled empty-handed.
But, unfortunately:
If you know the poppy-wearing pensioner, please call the [...]
Unprotected witness
Posted in policing, tagged casual execution on 30 October, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A report in The Independent:
Armed police fired on Jean Charles de Menezes without shouting any warning, a witness told an inquest today.
One cannot help but wonder whether the witness, a Mr. Livock, will now be subjected to the same sort of personal smear campaign as was Carmen Proetta. At least the people casually executed on [...]
Scapegoats
Posted in media, tagged bbc on 30 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The BBC has just announced that the controller of Radio 2 has resigned over the Ross/Brand incident.
Brand resigned some time ago. He may be a professional oik, and as a disc-jockey one of the least necessary forms of life, but he clearly has some idea, howseover vague, of that which is expected of a gentleman.
Ross, [...]
Sick note
Posted in Admin, tagged pulling sickie on 30 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blogging will be light for a while owing to medical circumstances.
All your brains, etc.
Posted in tyranny, tagged neurology on 30 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Heard yesterday evening on the BBC, shortly before the news:
“So what you’re saying is that by scanning peoples’ brains you can tell whether or not they ought to vote.”
“Yes.”
Blatancy coefficient seems to be increasing here.
Tories are not, and cannot be, Libertarians
Posted in Politics, tagged Tories on 29 October, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A Very British Dude says:
ID cards, Phone call databases and extended pre-charge detentions. These are lines in the sand we must not cross, and represent a reason for libertarians to vote Conservative. We can argue about the nicieties of an intrusive state afterwards, but for people to say “the Tories are evil statists too” is [...]
Mandelson to seize Nominet
Posted in internet, tagged censorship on 29 October, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From The Register:
Mandelson’s Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has asked Nominet, which is in charge of the .co.uk registry, to justify its independence from Whitehall.
The issuing of domain names is a potentially valuable cash-cow. Of course the state will seize this. Then it will make it very much less efficient, sell any [...]
Lovely Ludwig van
Posted in music, tagged Beethoven on 29 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Johnathan Pearce, at Samizdata, says that Ayn Rand
…regarded Beethoven as “malevolent”, which is a pretty bizarre comment on the creator of “Ode To Joy”, about as unmalevolent bit of music you can ever hear.
I beg to differ. I feel that Rand was prescient in this, as perhaps in other matters.
The Ode to Joy has been [...]
