Monthly Archives: April 2009

At the Number 10 website: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign Already more than 5,000 signatures on this.

Sorry for the scarcity of posts… working on something a bit different for this blog. In the meantime, why not relax with the UCLA women’s rugby team annual Prom Dress match?

From the Telegraph’s obituary of J. G. Ballard: In 1973 Ballard’s obsession with car accidents came to fruition with the publication of Crash. The book put forward the unusual theory that only through intimate contact with a car (in the … Continue reading →

Thomas E. Woods talks about the 1920/1 recession in America, arguing that this was short-lived because when it began the President was ill and unable to try to do anything about it and his successor in 1921 also did little. … Continue reading →

Iraq The Model posts a graph of the movement of the Iraqi Stock Exchange ISX index monthly closing figures between November 2004 and February 2009:

At the time of writing, every single one of the 29 comments the moderators have allowed through is contemptuous of Gordon Rayner’s disgusting hatchet job on Guido Fawkes, currently the top Editor’s Choice in the degraded Daily Telegraph. Hacks being … Continue reading →

This might be one of the 1,000 copies that were made of a charity disk on which Britain’s Got Talent hit Susan Boyle sang Cry Me a River. While her appearance on the TV show has received upwards of 25 … Continue reading →

The “left” may joke and titter and wheeze about “fundy Christian wingnuts” but find someone lecturing you about your immorality, your materialism, your sinful pride, your lack of spiritual value and, most likely, they will be driving an old Volvo … Continue reading →

The New York Times: DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan — Taliban insurgents are teaming up with local militant groups to make inroads in Punjab, the province that is home to more than half of Pakistanis, reinvigorating an alliance that Pakistani and … Continue reading →

Trenchant analysis from Harry Hutton: If I said stuff like I’d probably be arrested under the Nanny State’s bonkers Racial and Religious Hatred Act, which makes it illegal to murder people for their religious beliefs.