Category Archives: Politics
EVE Blog Banter #10 – Democracy in EVE
Welcome to the tenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or [...]
Sending a Message…
Sign this, its a new one though there have been many before it. I’m a bit dubious as to the worth of these petitions but we should at least make the effort to tell the dour idiot what we really think of him. You never know it may spur the opposition into some sort of [...]
Go Get ‘Em Guido
One down and the rest of them to go – why it’s fun to be Guido Fawkes today | Samizdata.net.
Must read for any brit concerned about the state of our politics. Take heart in the fact that there are people like Guido out there. The most telling question that he, and others like him ask [...]
Jacquboot Smite Needs to Get Gone
Sorry, this isn’t a post about EVE. If thats what you’re looking for you can skip this one
Sean Gabb Gets It Right, And Oh So Wrong.
Free Life Commentary No 181, 16th February 2009.
This speech, given to the think tank Conservative Future by the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, Sean Gabb, has many good ideas but unfortunately is either ignorant of, or in denial regarding the impossibility of these ideas being put into practice.
The meaning of this is that you should [...]
Geert Wilders’ Speech That Wasn’t Given
Geert Wilders – Counting Cats in Zanzibar.
This needs to be said. This needs to be heard. If I were invited to speak at the House of Lords, this is the speech I would give.
Barnett, Goldacre, and LBC Update
The Botherer (AKA John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun.) has been following the events surrounding the subject of this post more closely than I and has posted a concise summary on his blog.
I’m beginning to find the behaviour of LBC, Barnett and others quite despicable and would urge anyone who advertises with LBC to [...]
Spread This around please
Bad Science » Er, “help”. Legal Chill from LBC 97.3 and “Global Radio” over Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering.
So a blogger hears a radio show which scares him with the ignorance and superstition that it spouts, because its basically telling people not to give their kids the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine. Looks at the [...]
Alot of people aren’t going to like this…
I’ve held off blogging about the Isreal/Palestine problem as I didn’t feel that I was qualified to comment, not being Isreali or Palestinian. I have decided to lift this self imposed embargo due to the overwhelming fact that I am human, and last time I looked so were the Isrealis and Palestinians. Se here we [...]
The Most Fundamental of Freedoms is Gone…
<em>Post updated, hit the jump.</em>
I’m not talking about freedom of speech, or freedom of religion, or any of the more abstract freedoms which we are told we should care about. I’m talking about economic freedom.
According to this article in the Times:
PARTS of the United Kingdom have become so heavily dependent on government spending that the [...]
