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Friday, 24 December 2010

What Christmas Means To Me

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Just as my town is to this house, just as this country is to this town, just as this world is to this land; just as the sun is to this plane...
Sunday, 19 December 2010

Dealing with the Deficit (4) - Tax is always bloody taxing.

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On Tax Avoidance, Robin Hood, Bashing the Bankers, VAT, cabbages and Kings (and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings - wel...
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Saturday, 11 December 2010

The Tution Fee Vote - How did it get this close?

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 . Well, the motion to raise University Tuition fees from about £3500 to £6000-9000 a year passed.  For once I get to actually see how accu...
Thursday, 9 December 2010

The Tuition Fees vote. - It's getting bloody close!

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It's less than 5 hours to go and it's getting bloody close. Today's the day for the Big Tuition Fee vote, the closest and most...
Monday, 29 November 2010

'Weak' Democracy - A Principle in Defence of Monarchy.

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. Considering recent discussion around the announcement of Prince William's wedding this seems as good a time as any for a good look at ...
Saturday, 20 November 2010

A View on American Politics from a British Conservative - Secondly, Midterms, President Obama, Democrats and Republicans

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. It seems incredible that only two years after Barack Obama's meteoric rise in 2008, from barely known junior senator of Illinois to P...
Saturday, 6 November 2010

A view on American politics from a British Conservative - Firstly, it's just plain confusing.

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. 3rd November 2010, and across the Atlantic the opinion polls and the pundits were almost exactly right. The Republicans took more than 6...
Monday, 25 October 2010

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946.

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. Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we ...