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Monthly Archives: February 2007

The innocence of youth

“Unfortunately the people carrying out these attacks include children. They obviously do not realise what they are doing and are copying others.” Well, it’s possible, though not, I think, ‘obvious’. It’s also possible that they know exactly what they are doing and, like the older people involved, simply don’t care or – worse – are [...]

Those who know wouldn’t

I’ve written here from time to time about problems in the NHS. Now it seems that many of those who work within it would rather be treated by private medicine. This is surely some of the best possible evidence that the NHS needs urgent, meaningful reform. Of course, if anyone[1] knew exactly what, we’d[2] be [...]

The Americanisation of British English

I couldn’t agree more with what is said here.

Kidnapping in Space

You just couldn’t make it up!

Good reasons

You ought to have good grounds for detaining people, it is argued by those who know.

Vi and OS X

You can now have Vi-like behaviour throughout most of OS X. If you didn’t understand a word of that, don’t worry, it just means that you are not a computer-geek (*nix variety, anyway).

Illiberal Economy

Sometimes the pursuit of equality can be deeply illiberal, argues civitas.

Military change

The British army undergoes major change today.