At last night’s University Cogers, one of the speakers came up with a brilliant line that, given that religion is much discussed nowadays, seems apt to quote
“No man knows more of God than any other, though many believe they do.”
The Society of Cogers is the world’s oldest free speech society; it is in its two [...]

My post, ‘Nothing about us without us‘, is up on Liberal Conspiracy. In response to some pretty poor arguments from ‘Nick’, Pennyred has a great putdown:
“HUGE straw man there, of the type Christopher Lee might dance around.”
Nice one, Pennyred. I’ll be weighing in again shortly.
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Redemption Blues holds a particularly good Britblog Roundup, and comes up with one of the best one-liners I’ve seen: “the Sun + money + fear = the Daily Mail“.
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“We no longer know how to be brief. For instance: the Lord’s Prayer consists of 56 words; the Ten Commandments 297 words; the United States Declaration of Independence 300 words; and the EU Convention on the Importation of Caramel - 26,911 words.”
Greville Janner, Janner’s Complete Speechmaker, 6th ed., 1999. The anecdotes and one-liners at the [...]

“The majority of laws are only privileges, which is to say, a tribute by all to the convenience of a few”
-Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments
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Graf von Straf Hinderberg has an interesting, if somewhat morose, post on modernity and the fairy gold of materialism. Showing that the King James Bible has a beautiful turn of phrase, von Straf links to Ephesians 6:12:
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness [...]

On the way into Parliament, just before you go past Westminster Hall, there’s a sign (for pedestrian traffic management) that simply says:
“Keep Left”
Hmmm…
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My apologies, dear reader, if you have been expecting updates. I have been detained lately with the elections and revision. Fear not: I shall return in a few days.
In the meantime, I shall leave you with a quote from The Big Issue (May 1-7 2006, p6):
“In 2004, journalists on the Daily Express files a complaint [...]