Peter Risdon

An allegorical photograph.

Rick Hills:
… I stand with George Orwell who spent the 1930s and 1940s denouncing the obscurity of intellectuals’ prose as a cloak for tyranny (and, incidentally, who was also accused of being an anti-intellectual). Intellectuals spray polysyllables like squid ink, to evade the democratic decencies of conversation. I’d like not to be one of their [...]

More robust common sense here, from the organisation that once slow-handclapped Blair:
So what, precisely were these Hampshire grandmothers doing, weighing up the pros and cons of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch?
The ranch was one of a number of brothels visited by the pair in Holland, America and New Zealand as part of their ‘research’ for [...]

What would you do?

I’m pretty unsympathetic to anonymous blogging, but there are cases where it’s clearly necessary, such as for public employees. Presumably, the MPD suspect inside involvement:
The city of Memphis, along with Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin, have subpoenaed AOL to force it to hand over all records associated with an @aim.com e-mail address, including registration information, [...]

Claims the NY Times… in 1969. And in 1922.

In a very good post about workfare – one that if read without knees jerking contains much that Classical Liberals would agree with – Shuggy says the following:
… David Cameron can smoke weed and snort coke and all that happens to him is that commentators admire the way he deflects ‘unjustified’ questions about his ‘private [...]

Picking up on an idea by Tim Worstall, I put a quick javascript widget together yesterday to show the amount spent by the US government on its stupid War Against Drugs since the start of this year. You can see it in the sidebar here, and if anyone wants to use it the code is [...]

SQL injection is one of the most common types of security problem with database-backed websites. I’m going to give a brief and slightly simplified technical description for those who don’t know what it is, because that’s the only way I can show how obvious – and easily avoided – it is.
A SQL query is almost [...]

I haven’t seen this picked up much yet by blogs, but it deserves wide coverage:
Twickenham Stadium will be hosting a challenge rugby union match featuring rugby stars from around the world aimed at raising over £1m for the Joint Services Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, Leatherhead, Surrey, which cares for armed services men and women [...]