This tirade caught my eye. I sympathise with the writer. He needed a better editor (one who didn’t give him such an awful headline), and isn’t really a patch on Clarkson when it comes to writing over-reactionary prose. But there are numerous choice sentences: If we recreate the Dark Ages in the 21st century, it [...]
No, not petrol, my dear American readers, but helium. Robert Page is product manager for bulk gases at Air Liquide, which supplies gas to industrial firms. He notes his company has not yet been forced to turn away customers. However, he warns that helium — just like natural gas — is a non-renewable resource and [...]
It seems likely that Blair will be gone next week. Not to me, but to all the journalists who are carefully preparing us for some annoucement to come after the local and regional elections. It is more and more certain that Brown will become leader of the Labour party with no opposition. A stagering 73% [...]
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I’m indebted to ALB for pointing me to the Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Should people be able to forget that they worked for oppressive regimes and just get on with their lives? And does the answer depend on whether that regime was left or right wing?
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I don’t know which is more terrible, the fact that urinals have been suggested as a cause of bullying or that it was some public servant’s job to write such silly proposals.
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The NHS is happy to let you go blind in one eye. A group of doctors has called the idea of free health care in the UK a mirage. They are right.
I was going to write something about the French electoral system, but the Economist has already said exactly what I wanted to point out.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
I said in this post that no high-profile shootings of this type had been ended by members of the public exercising their Second Amendment rights. In fact, there have been some cases. The shootings at the Appalachia Law School was one such, although the fact that the students who tackled the shooter were also armed [...]
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
I have held off posting about the awful shootings at Virginia Tech for two days. Reliable news about the incident was slow to appear, though that didn’t stop ‘the internet’ from speculating (incorrectly) about who the shooter might be.
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