1. 2009
  2. October

Month: October 2009

Dreams of bravery

I sometimes lie in bed fantasising about acts of bravery. Our house is being burgled. This actually happened, except I…

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Hate crime, thought crime

There’s something inherently wrong in punishing someone for how they feel or think; surely we should punish people for what…

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Speechly Seminar

Here are pictures from the Spear’s/Speechly Bircham seminar on privacy and the wealthy, which took place on Thursday 15 October.…

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Crown King, bash Brown

When Mervyn King told all these bailed out bankers in Edinburgh that the ’Too-Big-To-Fail Syndrome’ was the right issue, however,…

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Abolish the Royal Mail!

Third, postmen have (in my experience) been larcenous. And if they’re not larcenous, they’re careless, which is equally as bad.…

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Mervyn King's Speech

In a speech delivered last night in Scotland, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, stressed his feeling…

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Obituary: Oleg Tsarev

Tsarev understood the demands of western academia and made little effort to sanitize some of the more unpalatable aspects of…

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