For those of you who were worried about the sanity of Northern Ireland: relax, they got a flush of youth today. Edwin Poots took office as head of the Democratic Unionist Party, the largest in the NI Assembly. Poots is a Young Earth Creationist who believes the Earth was created about six thousand years ago.
Monthly archives: May 2021
Dominic Cummings told a load of truth. Will it make any difference?
Grima Wormtongue aka Dominic Cummings had his day on camera today. It sounded great fun. Honest Boris is ‘unfit’ to be Prime Minister, ‘tens of thousands’ of people died unnecessarily from Covid due to government incompetence, Hancock the health minister is a liar and a fool. The thing is none of this is news. We’ve …
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Deal of a Lifetime
The IMF reckons the world could “end the pandemic” in mid-2022 by spending $50 billion on vaccines. Doing so would be worth $9 trillion to the world economy – a hundred and eighty times as much (not to mention the millions of lives saved). That’s an amazing return, probably the best investment that it’s ever …
One-State-Two-State – Israel & Palestine
Watching behaviour can be confusing when you’re expecting the participants to be planning for the long-term. For example the Israelis: despite seventy years of siege status, they alone in the Middle-East – with wealth and strength from their modern economy, western democracy and rule-of-law – have power over their future. The best thing they could …
Not Keeping the Ratio Up
Israel is beginning to let its people down, statistically too. There’s a new intifada. By last night 87 Palestinians had died in Gaza; Hamas killed 7 Israelis. That’s a kill-ratio of 12.4-to-1. However according to the UN in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict since 2008 there have been 5600 Palestinian and 250 Israeli deaths. That’s 22.4-to-1. I’ll …
The Honest Party
It’s been a busy couple of days for Tory probity news. Former Conservative chairman Andrew Feldman got a job advising the health minister James Bethell last year, and advised him to give a £22.6m contract to one of his firm’s clients. Honest Boris had a suspicious £15k Carribbean holiday, oh and there’s updates to the …
Starmer Reaps His Silence
Hartlepool voted for a Conservative MP instead of Labour for the first time since 1959. This is dreadful for Labour. That they lost a by-election to an eleven-year government is appalling. To lose by the landslide they did rubs salt in the wound. The radio has been replete with Labour strategists and pundits expounding on …
Electoral Systems – How Stupid Do They Have to Be?
Fact: The First Past the Post system used in most parts of most elections in the UK is completely rubbish. It is unrepresentative and unfair. Brits seem functionally unable to understand this. I don’t know why. The argument is always about its simplicity: “whoever gets the most votes wins, so it must be right”. No …
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BreYesxit 2 – Where Can My Vote Do The Least Damage?
If I said to you…There was a large group that was successful because of its scale and diversity, but a small part wanted to leave it because of imagined discrimination…might I be talking about Little England Tories and the EU, or the SNP and the UK? Can’t tell them apart really. The Part has done …
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