When Fitzroy MacLean parachuted into Yugoslavia in 1943, little was known of Tito and the Partisans. Rumours suggested Tito was a woman, or a committee. MacLean found a communist. During a subsequent meeting with Churchill, which he reported in his … Continue reading
From this week’s Normblog Profile, of Vanessa Cabban. I’ve changed the sequence of these slightly: What do you consider to be the main threat to the future peace and security of the world? > The male of the human species. … Continue reading
From a post at the LPUK blog: However as is usual with our lefty friends they don’t actual [sic] present any solid arguments in support of the NHS. The basis of their argument for the NHS is that if we … Continue reading
Whether or not we should have lots of “shiny new polytechnics” isn’t the issue that struck me, reading this post from Tim Worstall. In the comments, someone said: … its a moot point how many people actually use- or even … Continue reading
It’s brief, so in full. Glenn Reynolds: SCENES FROM A NEW AMERICA: So I dropped the girls off at a movie, and — since the Insta-wife was lunching with her mom — stopped at a Sonny’s Barbecue for lunch. A … Continue reading
… while you’re making other plans. I haven’t been blogging so much recently. That’s because I’ve had some opportunities I hadn’t expected and I’ve been trying to do two things at once, the day job with computers and some new … Continue reading
Azarmehr writes today about a piece by Darius Guppy in The Independent a few days ago. I’d missed it. Guppy’s theme is that Iranians look with horror at the decadent place the UK has become, with drunken chavs falling over … Continue reading
This is strangely put: France is home to Europe’s largest five million Muslim population. There’s a smaller five million population somewhere? The piece is about a ban in France on a woman wearing a small tent, a “burkini”, while swimming, … Continue reading
Are you even making a proposal? Or just asking the cash trucks to form an orderly line in front of the state school black hole? From the comments to a post at Harry’s Place advocating the introduction of vouchers for … Continue reading
Who do you think this might be? Government funding comes in the form of Parliamentary Grants-in-aid which, over the last four years (most recent accounts 31st March 2008), has amounted to: £31.7m, £32.9m, £36.6m and £44.9m respectively. So from 2005 … Continue reading