I’ve always thought Bono was largely full of it. Today I am, irrevocably and forever, completely convinced of the fact. Bono has made a second career out of, in effect, telling other people (governments) how they should spend money which was acquired under coercion (taxation) from third parties (taxpayers). He calls it “aid”, [...]
William Hague:
the case for the referendum rests above all on the need for the House and the Government to honour commitments solemnly given. How many times have each of us in the House toured schools and colleges saying to young people that they should take an interest in politics, that their vote makes a difference, [...]
On Tuesday, the Chancellor Alistair Darling told Parliament that a “junior” member of staff at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs had downloaded the financial and personal records of 25,000,000 people, burned them onto a CD and posted them off. The emphasis was on the “junior” rank of the rogue individual who had done this:
It cannot [...]
I love this government. They give me so much material to use when teaching kids how not to handle IT. I watched the Chancellor’s wretched apology in the Commons this morning with a tired kind of incredulity. It’s nothing more than par for the course under this Labour government.
What I found most remarkable, though, [...]
The government which proposes to centralise all our information in a national ID Card database has managed to lose the bank account details of millions of people by sending two CDs in the post:
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing. The [...]
Preparing to start school, we had a day of refreshing on policy. The nature of modern Britain, led by New Labour’s decade of legislative diarrhoea - an apt metaphor for both quantity and quality - is such that you literally cannot comply with every law and policy that exists. Even if you just violate policy, [...]
Stupid puff-piece on the BBC today entitled “Supermarkets ‘are too powerful’“, including this wonderful line:
almost 80% of suppliers said they had been put under pressure to lower prices
Really? How dare a customer ask a British business to lower their price! Don’t they know that a Briton’s profit margin is his castle? Someone get Gordon Brown [...]
Nice to see the BBC getting the ball rolling on rehabilitating Robert Mugabe’s image. Turns out it was all a misunderstanding and Britain’s fault, really.
Personally, I’m relieved. I was worried that we had finally found a problem in the world that couldn’t be directly blamed on Britain or America.
In other Zimbabwe news, they’ve just [...]
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