Archive for June, 2005

 

Pictures

Monday, June 27th, 2005

I’ve set up an account at Flickr, which lets me put photos up for free. Do take a look…
www.flickr.com/photos/unoriginalname38
xD.

 

Tom Hurndall

Monday, June 27th, 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4625355.stm
Against the odds, an Israeli soldier has been convicted of the murder of Tom Hurndall. I covered this story a couple of times for the LSE SU’s newspaper.
xD.

 

Political Compass

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

My results from www.politicalcompass.org:Economic left/right: -4.38Social libertarian/authoritarian: -6.36So I’m a left-wing liberal of sorts___My results from http://typology.people-press.org/typology/, an American version of the political compass
LiberalBased on your answers to the questionnaire, you most closely resemble survey respondents within the Liberal typology group. This does not mean that you necessarily fit every group characteristic or agree with […]

 

The Rebate Debate

Monday, June 13th, 2005

There is part of me that wants to say that we should scrap the rebate because it was brought in by Mrs. Thatcher, and is therefore evil. It remains a crude solution to the problem of, essentially, the CAP, a problem that can only worsen with the joining of the accession countries.
So I find myself […]

 

Michael Jackson - the verdict

Monday, June 13th, 2005

As I type, the verdict is about to come out on Michael Jackson. Or rather, the verdicts plural, as he is indicted on various charges. Here’s my predictions
Count 1Conspiracy to commit child abduction - not guilty. There just isn’t the evidence
Counts 2-5Lewd act on a child - not guilty on 2, guilty on 2
Count 6Attempt […]

 

Well done, M. Chirac

Friday, June 10th, 2005

You have to admire Jacques Chirac. France has just voted no to the Constitution, so what are we going to talk about at the meeting of the worthies of Europe? The British rebate. I doubt that anything is going to change, as there isn’t the external pressure to actually force movement on the rebate […]

 

The ten most dangerous books of all time

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

This came up in conversation today… what are the ten most dangerous books ever written? In no particular order
1. Capital/Das Kapital - ‘Uncle’ Karl Marx
Capital is a dry text on economics and yet it, and the books that go along with it in the Marxian canon, have, one way and another, inspired a political philosophy […]