John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Ch.III: “he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him; it being to be understood as a declaration of a design … Continue reading →

I for one will always trust a government that failed so abjectly in battling BSE and continiues to fail in fighting bovine TB when they tell us that there’s no need to follow the French example of quarantining and vaccinating … Continue reading →

Yaaaay! Sign me up for one of those biometric ID cards with my fingerprints and stuff. Nothing could ever go wrong! So, that’s �750,000 compensation due to fingerprints being misidentified (a handy precedent set). We’re constantly told that these ID … Continue reading →

Britblog Roundup 53

Sound familiar? It’s almost exactly the same nonsense John Reid came out with a couple of weeks ago, just before the footage of British troops beating up some Iraqis emerged. Only this time he goes even more mental – we … Continue reading →

Read this passage from Locke’s First Treatise of Government, and tell me there aren’t any parallels. It’s late and I’m a bit drunk, so I may well be reading too much into it. But the parallels are there: “Since there … Continue reading →

Tony Blair’s recent assaults on our civil liberties have finally got me reading a bit of political philosophy again. To wit, some pertinent quotes from John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, Ch.II – “Let us suppose… that the government is entirely … Continue reading →

Having problems finding a plumber? Well those kindly souls over in Brussels are trying to save you from your misery with the Services Directive, allowing the Daily Mail the joy of umpteen thousand headlines about German Garbage collectors stealing our … Continue reading →

Today at Prime Minister’s Questions, responding to ex-Tory leader William Hague, Tony Blair said “He and I stood in a democratic election in 2001 and I… remember the result” The obvious implication, of course, is that in a democratic vote, … Continue reading →

For all those maniacs who think the BBC is biased: “World Television produces the fake news, but its efforts are entirely funded by the Foreign Office, which spent �340m on propaganda activities in the UK alone in 2001. A comprehensive … Continue reading →

ID cards to be forced on us? Check. Pointlessly over-riding the market in an utterly hypocritical PR move? Check. Final step – attempt to introduce thoughtcrime. Won’t somebody rid me of this troublesome government? Update: This. Update 2: Also this … Continue reading →

Total ban on smoking in public places by 200-odd votes? BASTARDS. That’s it, this country is beyond redemption.

Tony Blair achieves stage one in his attempt to force me to emigrate. Stage two to follow later today. Of course, now that they’re going to tie passports in to ID cards and force us all to have the buggers, … Continue reading →

Time to start updating blogrolls, folks – BlogCode is up and running, a handy new tool for finding blogs similar to those you like from Mr Ireland. Used in conjunction with Wikablog it could end up rather useful for discovering … Continue reading →