David Davis, remarking on fake charities, mentions the definitely non-fake RNLI (of which I have the honour to be a Governor).
On the BBC’s ‘You and Yours’ programme immediately before the one o’clock news on Radio 4 I was disgusted to hear someone with a ludicrously overmodulated voice, more appropriate to childrens’ TV than any other [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Mark weapon effects II
Posted in charity reform, tagged RNLI on 27 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pullman on liberty (or the lack thereof)
Posted in books, tagged Philip Pullman on 27 February, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It is only rarely that Mrs. Underclass and myself give away books (as the state of the house attests), but among those from which we parted without much hesitation were a trilogy of fantasy works by one Philip Pullman.
There were reasons for this into which, were this a book-reviewing blog, I might go in more [...]
Damn-right dept.
Posted in law, tagged self-defence on 27 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Trooper Thompson:
…the one thing the oligarchy hate is a man who defends himself. They want us all passive slaves, begging for protection from the state.
For myself I believe that a charge of murder against the lorry driver is unlikely to succeed, precisely because of the condition of premeditation. I think that he is far more [...]
Fake charities: the empire strikes back
Posted in charity reform, tagged Charity Finance on 27 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mark weapon effects.
fakecharities.org has been noticed by Charity Finance:
A new website, fakecharities.org, has been created to highlight those charities which receive state funding and which the site’s creator alleges support the government… A spokesman for Age Concern denied that accepting money from government inhibits its ability to speak out for older people… A spokeswoman for [...]
Gotta have it, man; gotta have it
Posted in bourgeois fripperies, tagged art on 26 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cuddly synthesisers.
These are presumably for the band whose drummer uses Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Soft drum set’ (1972).
(h/t: Boing Boing)
Spooks, or Prudes? Who can tell?
Posted in internet, tagged hacking, stats on 26 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that person or persons unknown, other than as numbers, have been hacking into the blog statistics of Ian Parker-Joseph, who is (as regular readers will no doubt be aware) the leader of the LPUK.
It would not surprise me in the slightest to discover that the two-pairs-of-sunglasses community have been detailed off by Them [...]
Ignorance is no excuse
Posted in Rants, tagged teenage pregnancy on 26 February, 2009 | 8 Comments »
More angst in the Telegraph about teenage pregnancies.
This morning, to my disgust, there was one of those smug, self-righteous, patronising Labour Party managing-women on the wireless, wittering on about this. I believe her name may have been Toynbee. She was asking her listeners to believe that ‘we’, by which she means herself and her fellow [...]
The maintenance of the Young’s modulus of one’s upper lip
Posted in resistance, tagged riots on 26 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A complete, correct, coherent and concise summary of the position with respect to the forthcoming long hot summer, by the irreplaceable leg-iron. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest:
If we don’t riot, Labour are likely to be obliterated in a general election.
If we riot, there won’t be one.
Unable to add to this, I merely repeat:
Moderation in all things
Posted in Admin on 26 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having accidentally frustrated a commenter with the moderation currently implemented on this blog, I feel that I should draw attention to a new page, called ‘Comments’, which explains how I believe moderation to be set up at present, and why.
The problems here are caused by people sending advertsing spam comments, which contain either solely a [...]
Met Police to take over country
Posted in policing on 26 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting account at the Copper’s Blog of potential changes to the organisation of the police force proposed by the think-tank ‘Reform’.
Before responding in any way to this posting one might consider reading all of the comments.
