Children will be banned from watching shooting events under Boris Johnson's Olympic ticket giveaway. London schoolchildren are eligible for 125,000 Olympic tickets but these will not include any featuring guns, as Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby. The sheer idiocy of this speaks volumes of the rot at the heart of British society and its decadent political...
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Samizdata on 26th Aug 2011 (via samizdata.net)
The populist appeal of Nick Clegg's idea to return bank shares to the public is clear, but it would actually be bad for taxpayers
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FT on 24th Jun 2011 (via ft.com)
Even if Mr Clegg and his fellow politicians had not spent much of the past year denigrating bankers, his proposal would be plainly absurd
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FT on 23rd Jun 2011 (via ft.com)
Nick Clegg wants to give every voter shares in the state-owned banks as the deputy prime minister looks to revive his battered image
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FT on 23rd Jun 2011 (via ft.com)
Subsitute ‘babelfish’ for anything a believer says proves that god exists… The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” “But,” says Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance.
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SimO on 21st Jun 2011 (via sim-o.me.uk)
John Swinney, the Scottish Finance Minister, has been forced into a series of grovelling apologies to the Scottish Parliament after secretly shelving its tax-raising powers.
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Telegraph on 24th Nov 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Debt and climate change build up over long periods during which policy is dominated by lobbying and short-term expediency, until a day of reckoning, writes Michael Grubb and Susanne Droege
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FT on 15th Jun 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
AMID all the smiles from Gordon Brown and his ministerial colleagues there was an elephant in the manifesto launch room: there is no money to pay for anything.
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Scotsman on 13th Apr 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)