Remember the Battle of Lechfeld? In 955, on the plain of the river Lech, the German army defeated a Magyar horde and ended one of the three barbarian invasions of Western Europe. At least, that was always the conventional, “official” … Continue reading
just keeps a’growin: Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry’s Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), Mike Power, Jailhouse Lawyer, Suesam, Devil’s … Continue reading
Quoted by Reuters, Oxford University economics professor Dieter Helm said: The price of carbon has had virtually no effect on the market so far and virtually no effect on climate change. People like me who think the price of carbon … Continue reading
TFI points out something fascinating in the comments here. Yesterday, Matt Wardman googled the name “Schillings” – the solicitors acting for Alisher Usmanov, and responsible for the temporary closure of bloggerheads, Craig Murray and others. In the first five results, … Continue reading
The Evening Standard’s website, This Is London, reports that: A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with the proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with … Continue reading
While his main bloggerheads site is being resuscitated, Tim Ireland has set up a Blogger site devoted specifically to the Alisher Usmanov Affair.
Matt Wardman pointed out that the recent piece of blog censorship is backfiring badly for Schillings, the lawyers whose threatening letter caused several blogs to be taken offline. If you google their name, highly critical commentary comes up in the … Continue reading
Well, after that, let’s have a bit of the Pirates:
Chris Dillow says that: party politics is just like prog rock.Both are pompous self-referential masturbatory activities undertaken by mostly middle-class white boys, which are meaningless and irrelevant to most people. And concludes: although prog rock was (partly) swept away by … Continue reading
Writing at Pickled Politics about the fuss in India over proposals to build a bridge on a holy site, Rumbold writes: In the Hindu epic the Ramayana, the hero Lord Ram sets out to destroy the terrible demon Ravana, who … Continue reading