I feel a random urge to post a link to my medication here… I know my behaviour has been odd of late, so this might help to explain why. The sections on bipolar disorder are appropriate to me.
www.zyprexa.com
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This was passed to me by The Human Tide; thanks to the blogger.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Now that is a good question. I suspect it might well be Johnny Got His Gun. If I had the power, I would make every recruit to the armed forces, every politician [...]

Sadly, both Dead Men Left and Hold that Thought are barking up wrong trees when they come to Europe. DML argues for a left no and HtT for a left yes. I’m going to argue, in my usual flaccid and unconvincing style, that left-right issues are not really relevant for the constitution(al treaty) that goes [...]

I’ve put some of my photos up here. Do take a look.
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The etymology of the word ‘democracy’ is often mistaken. It comes from the Greek demos and kratein. Literally, it means power to the people, so long as ‘the people’ is restricted to, essentially, the class of property owners. Dahl makes pains about using the term ‘polyarchy’ to refer to what most call democracies, but the [...]

In an earlier post, I mentioned that I thought that the LibDems were effectively two parties: one is essentially a social democratic party and the other is classical liberal in nature, and the two come together by both being socially liberal.

The classical liberal or Orange Book wing of the party appears to be in the [...]

Yes, and I don’t care who knows it. Eurovision, the annual display of xenophobia, nepotism and geopolitics masquerading as a song contest is one of the great annual events.
I wonder why Germany gave so many points to Turkey (and, for similar reasons, Spain to the UK). Is it because there are lots of immigrants who [...]

One of the issues that came up quite a lot in the SU elections last term was the need for an admin assistant up in the advice and counselling centre. The problem, as ever, is a lack of money.
A possible solution might be a hundred club. If we could set up a club with 100 [...]

Another addition to the blogroll… Pablo K’s the Human Tide at thehumantide.blogspot.com. Read, note and inwardly digest.
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There are times when I love trades unions.
I have just paid in to the Cities of London and Westminster Constituency Labour Party Account a cheque for £100= from the Bakers’ Union’s political fund.
Why does that raise a smile?
Still, I’m very grateful, so if there are any Bakers reading, I would like to thank you for [...]