Let’s get back on track, I have not had a good argument in too long, it has been nothing but the rather pointless philosophical point scoring of a class full of people that get confused between the search for truth and meaningless arguments in which the only objective is to win, no matter how wrong [...]
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Back to basics, Minimum wage
Posted in Economy, Free Market, Political, UK politics on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Heartening, the resolve of the many and the power of the few
Posted in China, Civil Liberties, democracy, Economy, Events, Free Market, Freedom of Speech, Government, Human Rights, Political, rant, UK politics, tagged Beijing Olympics on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wanted to write a post about the protests that have taken place around the world as the olympic torch has been carried from nation to nation in a badly judged public relations exercise by the Chinese Administration. When I got plane to return to the UK I saw the scenes that greeted the Olympic [...]
So much for Anarchy
Posted in Anarchism, Free Market, Music, Peforming Arts on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to Yahoo Music news that great purveyor of fascinating truth and certainty, 60% of Radiohead fans paid bugger all to download their latest album ‘In Rainbows’ The idea of letting fans pay for a product or in a more general sense letting a customer pay what they think the product is worth is not [...]
Royal Mail, a lesson in Byzantine politics
Posted in Capitilism, Economy, Free Market, Government, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail on August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As me and my fellow rats are blowing up our waterwings and viewing the horizon for a passing ship the lumbering liner that is Royal Mail steaming full speed ahead begins to dig itself into its watery grave. A slightly rhetorical description but not so far from the truth. The situation is getting increasingly nasty [...]