Rum lot really: In postwar London, Beauclerk worked for the Central Office of Information until 1964, when he succeeded his second cousin, “Obby”, as 13th Duke of St Albans. He had been no less than ninth in line at the time of his birth (fewer
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TimWorstall on 16th Mar 2010 (via timworstall.com)
As I have found through researching a book on normal birth, countless mothers testify that birth without drugs results in less pain overall. And as a woman who has given birth three times without any pain relief, I can only agree. Er, no love. You have personal experience of the amount of pain a drug free birth
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TimWorstall on 19th Jul 2009 (via timworstall.com)
Happy day. Should of course be an English bank holiday. Should of course be celebrated by English people everywhere. I am English, and like many English people I am rather of mixed blood, one Welsh grandfather and one Scottish one. The Celtic heritage shows in the hair and in what Billy Connolly called a "pale blue" complexion. But English is what I am. London born, as were my parents. Urban Engli...
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janestheone on 23rd Apr 2009 (via janestheones.blogspot.com)
Office for National Statistics - Estimates of the UK population by country of birth and nationality for the 12 month period; July 2007 to June 2008.
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UKStatistics on 24th Feb 2009 (via statistics.gov.uk)
General Register Office for Scotland - Quarterly Updates to `Estimated population resident in Scotland by council area and nationality/country of birth` tables.
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UKStatistics on 24th Feb 2009 (via gro-scotland.gov.uk)
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office job advertisement has been named and shamed for its poor use of the English language.
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Telegraph on 10th Dec 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
What are these people on? The Albany group, which works in Peckham, south London, where deprivation levels are high, has long been held up as a shining example of what is possible in NHS midwifery. It supports women to give birth wherever they choose – almost half give birth at home – and medical intervention rates
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TimWorstall on 8th Dec 2009 (via timworstall.com)
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, boasts that his Transport for London is doing its bit to keep London up and running over Christmas, but complains that Heathrow has spoilt the London Transport picture. Why? Because it believed the Met Office: ... Why did the Met Office forecast a "mild winter"? Do you remember? They said it would be mild and damp, and between one degree and one and a half degrees w...
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Samizdata on 20th Dec 2010 (via samizdata.net)
Live birth abortion? Senator Obama voted three times against a Bill which would have outlawed the evil of ‘live birth abortion’. It is a termination process which involves the birth of a live baby, the issuing of a birth certificate, the purposeful abandoning of the baby to a slow and tortuous death, and the callous issuing of a death certificate. Is this not infanticide? By law, if an...
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Cranmer on 29th Oct 2008 (via archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com)
The economic crisis should be treated as "the difficult birth-pangs of a new global order", with new rules introduced on trade, Gordon Brown says. Birth pangs…where have we heard that before? What we're seeing here, in a sense, is the...
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BloodAndTreasure on 2nd Feb 2009 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
The wisdom of English Democrat, Steve Uncles (I had a good chuckle at this press releases and follow up comment). English Democrats London Mayoral Candidate - Matt O’Connor, today announced in a press conference close to his “Shock Scot” Campaign Poster at London Bridge Railway station, that he would be launching a new “Hard Hitting” English
