Politics

Winning the Ultimate Popularity Contest

Only a nation that encourages its citizens to vote for its public prosecutors and prom queens could deliver the ultimate in popularity contests. ...

No Objection to Objectification

A relatively minor news story grabbed my attention this week. Or rather, I noticed it briefly, and then kept remembering it as I...

What Can the Matter Be, Shami Chakrabarti?

This post is about Shami Chakrabarti. If you are interested in current affairs, and live in the UK, and are not just pretending...

Oil’s Well That Ends Well

A few thousand years ago, God and the Devil were winding down after a day of hard negotiation on the Heaven and Hell Entrance...

Death and Taxes

Inheritance tax is the tax that seemingly everyone hates. Wherever you look, you cannot find a politician who argues for it. They...

The Worst Form of Government?

Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is...

Namesake Donations

Namesakes are problematic. If you have the same name as another person, you somehow get linked to them in people's minds, even though...

The Polish Plumber Exchange Program

In Britain, last week's newspapers were full of stories about the number of people on incapacity benefit and other welfare payments. The subtext...

One Voter, One Vote… Black or White

I have been struggling for a while with collecting all the data necessary for this blog, so this is me giving up and admitting...
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