Elections
Polling Predictions #8
The past few weeks has seen much about MRP polls in the various strands of MSM and social meejah. Now, an article in the Grauniad, has kind of given the seal of approval to this [more…]
Blog
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Nine
Monday Good morning friends, another week is underway. It was a bit grey earlier, but the sun is trying to show here in the street. This morning I hear that China was behind the hacking [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Two
I offended Peter Hitchens. After claiming he’d ignored my letter, I found his reply propped in the alleyway that connects my letter box to the kitchen and garage doors. A white envelope sat undiscovered for [more…]
Economics
Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun, Part One
没有人阅读评论 Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun (Nobody Reads the Comments) “SINCE 1978 China has liberated more people from poverty than any other country in history, partly because China before 1978 consigned more people to poverty than anywhere [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Synth Pop Part Four – Two’s Company…
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another pineapple-topped edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our fortnightly foray into the Campari and Stella soaked world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous, darling. This week, to [more…]
Arts
Citizens Khan And The Home Office Propaganda Effort
‘He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department. Presumably – since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner – she had some [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Twenty-Three
After her lunch, Jinnie headed back to the garden office determined to produce a spreadsheet showing the approximate costs of setting up a new table d’hôte restaurant. She wasn’t exactly an expert with constructing a [more…]
Business
The Case for Abolishing Regulatory Agencies
Regulatory agencies are not needed and actually retard whatever good they are suppose to prevent or mitigate. I’ll give just three quick examples. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) The underlying rationale for the CDC [more…]
20th Century
The Death Railway
Most Puffins will have watched David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai which is based on a novel published five years previously by French author Pierre Boulle. Whilst both book and film [more…]