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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Your Tax Money At Work - Catholic Priest Murdered By Syrian Opposition

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Our Government's decision to send money and arms to these people is already bearing fruit. Reports that Father Francois Murad was publ...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

"measures which will make a practical difference to the situation on the ground in Syria"

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Thus BBC radio news , toeing the Government line in most uncharacteristic fashion, on the decision to send arms to even up the balance of t...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

We Shall Not Look Upon Her Like Again

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Ken Livingstone summed her up well, although he had a lot more negative things to say about her : Ken Livingstone, Labour’s former London...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Underclass News

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Those two sadly-departed organs of the State, the Coppersblog and Inspector Gadget, frequently opined that they spent too much police time o...
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Are We Doomed?

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On this most solemn Crucifixion day, let me share some sombre stats with you :  Let me put that in writing : Gas up 168% in ten years ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Plan B - "Reinflate The Housing Bubble !"

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George Osborne is the Son Of Brown : "George Osborne is going into the mortgage business. What could possibly go wrong? ...(the t...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The UK Left Are The Lapdogs Of The Capitalist Elite

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The entire post-68 British "left" are paper tigers, running dogs of capitalism. No one's profits are threatened by the SWP ...
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Sunday, March 03, 2013

"Haven't we all done things we regret when we were young?"

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I don't know. For years the Peter Tatchell's of this world have been saying “don’t knock it til you’ve tried it”. It appears that...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

"Obama said he would strengthen the middle class and introduce immigration reform"

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Thus BBC Radio Four on the State of the Union address.  Given that "immigration reform" is Newspeak for "legalise the ille...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Some Start To Get It ...

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Well, it only took between 400 and 1,200 deaths at a single hospital, but it's starting to get through : "When I asked people ...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2013

"This is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe"

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Former life assurance salesman turned Tory A-lister Ivan Massow on the Tory Taliban (© Alan Duncan): “Those same shire people didn’t ...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

May Contain Traces Of Horse (And Pig)

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Fair play to the Irish. The UK state supports a vast array of bodies and busybodies designed to monitor and nag about food standards, inspec...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Death Of A Salesman

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Colour me cynical, but could this story : Shopkeepers and stallholders said yesterday that they believed the two victims were homeless. ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

What's wrong with the left blogs ?

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Is it just me, or are the Left blogs terribly stale these days ? You'd think that the Coalition would energise them no end - it's ce...
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

The Beginning Of The End (Of The Journey)

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Well, tomorrow sees the end of Child Benefit for those bloated plutocrats with a household income of £50,000 and a stay at home mother . T...
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Saturday, January 05, 2013

Benefits Rise By 1%, Food Prices Rise By 5% ?

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Laban, last week at CiF: "It was a bad wheat harvest in the West (although I'm told East Anglia did better then usual - they re...
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"Open borders make the eventual abolition of the welfare state imaginable"

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Thanks to blogger BenSix in the comments for this , from libertarian economist Bryan Caplan . (Graphs from Alesi...
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Thursday, January 03, 2013

More On Universal Credit - Stable Door Edition

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When I wrote about the Universal Credit rules for the self-employed , which will do such damage to the self-employed handyman or the single ...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Shepherds Arise

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A carol from Sussex, collected from the Copper family and sung here by Oak. Sorry about the pagan  video, but the guy's got taste in m...
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

"What's Wrong With The Left?" Part 296

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Andy Newman at Socialist Unity is worried : "I think there is another underlying problem, in writing about what the left is doing,...
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