1) A sorrowful letter to my local paper from a citizen close to losing his home has escalated my anger at the city government like nothing else. He is one of many whose property tax has tripled within the past two years, leaving him barely able to afford to live here. He […]

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An excellent article appeared into today’s Guardian by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead Synagogue.
It was a short feature on the history of prostitution, particularly that occurring in biblical accounts throughout the Old Testament. Apparently, “…the government is trying to develop strategies to tackle…” prostitution. Romain’s point is made succinctly in his final […]

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The BBC’s future role, function and structure have been set out in a White Paper published by the UK government. I’m looking at a copy of it now.
It is nothing short of insulting. It’s insulting to consumers of British media. It’s insulting to legitimate British broadcasters. It’s insulting to the law-abiding […]

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Here are a few of my opinions:
1. Black men are generally better boxers than white men
2. Vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters
3. Asians are on average more intelligent than white people
4. Socialists are usually much more angry and unhappy than capitalists
5. Men tend to be physically stronger than women
6. Women tend to be […]

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The Netherlands appear to be close to banning the burqa.
This is not the first time a ‘free’ European nation has had the gall to try and dictate what others may wear, and it’s not the first time we’ve had an attempted ban on the burqa. (I seem to remember blogging some time […]

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On 3rd October 2003 Lorraine Hadley and Natallie Evans lost a High Court bid to become pregnant using frozen embryos after their former partners withdrew consent. Mr Justice Wall decided that the men, Howard Johnston and Wayne Hadley, had rights in this case that cannot be overturned. He didn’t really have a terribly hard decision […]

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Workers United
Shall Not Be Defeated!
(Nor Shall They Be Rational)
We have recently had another fine example of the horrendously naïve, blinkered, and irrational philosophy of socialism at work here in Northern Ireland as 200 postal workers walked out of a Royal Mail depot in Belfast causing two and a half weeks of postal disruption. Why? Fuck […]

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I’ve noticed a fundamental misunderstanding among many who talk about rights, on both the Left and Right of the political spectrum.
Firstly, as a libertarian, when I say that it is someone’s ‘right’ to do something, I am dealing with that which affects the ability of other human beings to stop them from doing that thing. […]

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People who don’t eat meat make me almost as nervous as Palestinians wearing backpacks. I just don’t trust the buggers. Why on earth would any human being give up eating meat? OK, some people don’t like how it tastes, and I don’t mind such types. But what about that lot who don’t eat meat out […]

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A cross-party group of MP’s published a report last week in which they claimed that we have 10 years to “save the high street.” They tell us that once the big supermarkets kill off the smaller stores they will raise their prices, and this means that supermarket expansion should not be allowed to continue unchecked. […]

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