Peter Risdon

The discussions about libertarianism, left and right, have rumbled on. In the comments to a post here, Paulie suggested I read a post on libertarianism by Peter Ryley. So I did.
I found myself having an interesting internal struggle. While what he was saying flatly contradicted things I’ve been confidently declaring for years, he seemed to [...]

From Wikipedia:
In 1909 Alfred Deakin, the leader of the Protectionist Party merged with the Free Trade Party of George Reid to form the CLP on a shared platform of opposing the Australian Labor Party. It was defeated by Labor at its first election held in 1910.

After nearly a month of blogstipation.

If you flew with Tony Fall, you’d be introduced to The Great Airport Race. He had been taught it by Raymond Baxter in the 1960s, when they travelled to drive Rally Cars in, among other places, Monte Carlo.
Playing this, he’d sit, quivering with excitement, on the edge of his seat in the terminal building waiting [...]

They have restored it now, after a brief outcry, but what on earth was in the minds of the YouTube team when they cancelled the account of Egyptian anti-torture activist Wael Abbas?

One of the most striking things about To Kill A Mockingbird is the image the reader gets of completely powerless black people having their fate decided by white folks. A young black man is accused of rape by a white woman, arrested by white police, put in a white-run jail house. A white judge appoints [...]

Here’s a story that deserves a wider circulation. Former spook In From The Cold picked up on a piece in the Houston Chronicle about an apparent increase in the number, and a decrease in the strength, of tropical storms that are being given names (emphasis added):
Some meteorologists, including former hurricane center director Neil Frank, say [...]

I’ll probably continue to post erratically until Christmas. Work is particularly hectic right now and I’m on deadline for an online application that’s considered to be a project of national importance, so it will be launched by a Cabinet minister next month. As the sole developer, I’m a bit pushed.