Friday, 4 November 2011

Cigarettes, Movies and the mysterious 'They'

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Authoritarianism is generally associated with the repression of the Jews, the massacre of Kurds, mindless or terrified salutes to Brother #1...
Saturday, 8 October 2011

Dunbar's Number and Facebook

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Life is a cruel sport.  The good guy does not always win, criminals will sometimes get away with it, and sometimes nature itself will ruin t...
Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Pig's Head on a Stick

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Well, the 'silly season' never really got started did it?  Drifting in on the tail of the phone-hacking scandal came the nascent tre...
Friday, 17 June 2011

Bogey-man and Magic Wand Politics - The Conservative Assault on Sexuality

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Imagine teaching your son or daughter to cross the road safely.  Having got them as far as the pavement it's fair to say that the first ...
Saturday, 28 May 2011

The only way to maintain privacy for anyone is to guarantee it for no-one.

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Having grown up in the rural North Cotswolds I can assure you that the so called 'small-town mentality' is something more than appar...
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

The AV Referendum is not the 'be all and end all' of political feform but it will certainly set the tone of future efforts

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'A miserable little compromise' is how Nick Clegg defined the Alternative Vote.  No one can claim that he is the victim of quote min...
Friday, 22 April 2011

The 'No to AV' Campaign's arguments rely on condescension and scaremongering, with nothing to say about principle

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A pamphlet dissected: As May 5th draws nearer I of course should not be surprised if I were to be submerged in a wash of campaign leafle...