Peter Risdon

Embedding is disabled, but click through to watch this adorable little girl wow the audience. If the BNP tried to deport her, they’d have a lot of white middle aged Mums knocking their heads together.
Don’t forget, despite the glossy leaflets coming through our doors – one arrived here today – they’d deport English people like [...]

The school I went to was pretty traditional. Corporal punishment was part of the disciplinary code, involving slippers, gym shoes or the cane, depending on who was administering it. Latin was compulsory to the age of 12, at which time you could opt to add Greek to your timetable, or drop classics and study astronomy, [...]

Congratulations to Martin Kettle in the Guardian for figuring out how to blame Margaret Thatcher (and Rupert Murdoch) for the MPs’ expenses scandal.
In 1983, when Gordon Brown first went to the Commons, an MP earned just over £15,000. It was an absurdly low figure even then. So what did those who could have changed the [...]

Richard Thompson:

The reliability of data used to document temperature trends is of great importance in this debate. We can’t know for sure if global warming is a problem if we can’t trust the data.
The official record of temperatures in the continental United States comes from a network of 1,221 climate-monitoring stations overseen by the National Weather [...]

Mr. E. in the comments:
… you’d think that having stumbled onto a scheme that gets them a hefty salary for almost zero work, they’d have the good manners not to steal from us while they’re at it.
Read the post too. I have no idea why he doesn’t have a newspaper column. His sign off is [...]

There are situations where the left and right agree on a principle, but not enough to stop them disagreeing completely about how and when it should be applied, which makes the whole thing idiotic and confused.
So, for example, with inheritance. The right thinks we should, and we shouldn’t, inherit from the past, and so [...]

You might enjoy the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” quotation marks.

In Russia.

A discussion at the Irish Liberty Forum:
The monopoly concept is seriously misunderstood. Rather than sticking to the classical definition; “an exclusive grant to sell given by government”, some believe that it’s something to do with market share.[...]The lesson [of the Standard Oil case]: monopoly has nothing to do with market share as the definition of [...]