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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Nay; but we will have a king over us And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. - 1 Samuel 8 verses 10-20, King James Version (Also posted as a Quote of the Day at Samizdata) Monday, December 13, 2010
Why can't we talk any more? In which I defend a purveyor of woo. Unusually for me, I disagree with Tim Worstall. Saturday, December 04, 2010
Professor Lindemann will take your call now, Mr Churchill About the first Viscount Cherwell and Lucky Starr, Space Ranger. Thursday, November 25, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Repo man of the seas - the Guardian celebrates a man very unlike the stereotype of the average Guardian reader. He steals back stolen cargo ships, beating pirates at their own game. Also Five years after the Irish smoking ban the Irish are smoking more than ever, which should be self-explanatory. Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Is this what they call a bull market? Ever more spectacular claims of returns for government spending on the arts. Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Two more on Samizdata: A robust defence of George W Bush and the thrilling List of all tax reliefs (Excel file 349KB) Saturday, October 16, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Scarcely even a scandal any more - the vast sums spent in Sicily by the EU have had no effect. Dennis the Menace must account for his pennies - former Minister of State for Europe, Denis MacShane, is to be investigated by the police. Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Tuesday morning replay "A hand is a fraction of a second too slow on the trigger - a human mind is a fraction of a second slower than another, hostile, human mind to make sense of the confusion - and a comrade dies, or a hostage dies, and a lifetime of agonized mental replaying of that moment of failure begins. Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Onwards and upwards! A statement from the whole "10:10" team A green video goes viral. Its makers wish it hadn't. Saturday, September 25, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Late-capitalist knickers run amok!. I thought this post was about laughing at the Marxist jargon in a Guardian piece. The commenters preferred to make deeper points on whether the hipsters were proto-libertarians or not. The endless complexity of international aid. What you can predict from considering the class interest of the aid community. Marx did have a point, sometimes. O tempora! O mores! About two contradictory explanations on the same page of the Times for the latest cricket / gambling scandal. And a joke no one noticed. Saturday, August 21, 2010
State sponsored happy slapping and/or incitement to violence Don't worry, though. The victims are only smokers. Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
Safety wowsers and health wowsers. Fight! Fight! Fight! Oh, and here's one I forgot to post earlier:A tyrant's tantrum. Friday, July 23, 2010
A couple of new posts: What with the internet and all - about the future of political humour, a coming cultural change, and JournoList. and Nothing new to say on Ian Tomlinson - about a crime. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Friday, July 09, 2010
I am not trying to give anyone a heart attack... Some remarks by the Secretary of State for Health arouse Nanny's fury. Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Toast or not toast, that is the question. It's about the "economic war" launched by Chavez in Venezuela, obviously. Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Did the early white settlers in Africa think it would last forever? "It" being their dominance over the black inhabitants, and their racial exclusivity. Sunday, June 13, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Fashions in persecution Once freedom goes it becomes a matter of elite fashion just who the police harass. In 2010 it was Baptist street preachers. Twenty years earlier it was homosexuals. Twenty years later it may be homosexuals again. Get yer multiculturalism right and it could be both. Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Mohammed emoticon (((:~(> This is my entry to "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day". It is scarcely original, and the less original the better, I guess. I take no pleasure from violating other people's taboos. It is not polite and I wish to be polite. In ordinary circumstances if I want to do something that will annoy others I am willing to put up with moderate inconvenience in order to do it out of their sight. These are not ordinary circumstances. People are being threatened, harassed and sometimes murdered by fanatical Muslims for exercising free speech. The media and academia, fearless defenders of free speech so long as there was nothing to fear, have by and large caved in. So maybe it is time for ordinary people to step up. Lots of them. Spread the risk. Incidentally, it was good of the Pakistani authorities to help so much with the publicity. (Cross posted to Samizdata.) Monday, March 29, 2010
A burst of activity from me over at Samizdata:
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Loss of nerve: the Strathclyde Fire Brigade preferred not to rescue Alison Hume - a post for Samizdata. If you search the Samizdata archives for the words "loss of nerve" you will find other posts by me discussing similarly depressing news stories. Saturday, January 30, 2010
Those crazy Republicans explained: a BBC bias masterclass "...an instructive example for the young writer or broadcaster who aspires to produce material for the BBC." |