For all their intellectual vanity, it is clear that the Left is not only incapable of organising a root in a brothel, the brothel itself would be renamed a non-procreative recreational outlet; a place where lonely men could part with … Continue reading
I started moving this blog to a new server and got sidetracked part way through, so it’s been offline for a while. 2011 was an interesting year. Briefly, I bet the farm on a particular business and it didn’t happen, … Continue reading
Let me ease back into this, after a break of several months, with an easy one. Norm asks: Why is one inequality different? The context is a piece contrasting the strides towards greater racial and gender equality in the USA with … Continue reading
The nice thing about this mathematical controversy is that everyone can understand it. Τ (tau) equals Π times two. The circumference of a circle is 2Πr where r is radius of that circle, so it also equals Τr. Another way to express this … Continue reading
From this week’s Normblog profile of Emma Lee Potter (these lines are consecutive, I haven’t altered the sequence): Do you think you could ever be married to, or in a long-term relationship with, someone with radically different political views from your … Continue reading
This is an interesting interview with Thomas Pogge (via Norm Geras). He is concerned about global inequality and, while I don’t instinctively agree with his (redistributive) remedies, reading the piece made me aware how much room for agreement there can … Continue reading
He’s taking questions here.
Guido’s latest post claims BoJo was a blagger: In the now famous taped conversation between him and Darius Guppy, just months before the latter would be busted in a £1.8 million insurance scam, Boris conspired to have a News of the … Continue reading
Giving it a try:
I don’t want to pile in gratuitously, like a chicken at a peckin’ party as McMurphy put it in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, but this is quite extraordinary. A week or so ago, Johann Hari gave a speech in which … Continue reading