Music

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

The complicity of the BBC.

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If you sell refurbished dishwashers but claim they're brand new, or if you charge six hundred quid for plumbing jobs which should cost m...
Wednesday, 19 September 2012

The haves and the have-nots.

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If I were in the US, I'd be voting for Romney. I don't think he's a great candidate — the Republicans are shit at picking candid...
Tuesday, 18 September 2012

The death of the Republic.

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The death of the Republic. Exhibit A. First Amendment dead. Just for the record, this is what it looked like for a man who made a film th...
Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Whinge, whinge, whinge. Me, me, me.

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Imagine, if you will, the following film. It's a Second World War film. It starts with our "hero" Ken realising that his bes...
Friday, 24 August 2012

Intent matters.

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Much discussion of abortion in the news at the moment, especially — as ever — in the US. Prompted by that, Professor Geras says this, not s...

A scientific debate.

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As you may already know, the climatologist Michael Mann is suing Mark Steyn . Not much comment on that is required beyond the observation al...
Saturday, 23 June 2012

A thought on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth shaking the hand of Martin McGuinness.

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Some people have quite rightly observed that the Queen has been nice to some right odious bastards in her time, even inviting some appalling...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Harm and priorities.

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I saw the criminologist David Wilson on TV this morning, debating the issue of whether prisoners should be allowed to vote. He thinks that ...
Friday, 15 June 2012

My meandering argument in favour of legalising same-sex marriage, as if anyone cares.

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In 2005, Megan McArdle wrote this: My only request is that people try to be a leeetle more humble about their ability to imagine the sub...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

Shoes and pies.

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Someone did the market research that suggested this product was a goer. I'd like to see that.