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Equality for aristocrats
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on Saturday May 18th, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Take a seat: what I am about to say might shock you. There have been grumblings, recently, that the British nobility is not the bastion of egalitarianism that we believed it to be. I know, its startling. But this week a small group of downtrodden aristocracy wrote to The Daily Telegraph, describing the system as [...]Musharraf’s escape route
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on Saturday May 18th, 2013 at 11:54 AM
One man in Pakistan would have watched last Saturdays election results come rolling with more alarm than anyone else. Pervez Musharraf was the general who cut short Nawaz Sharifs second term in office by seizing control of the country and arresting the prime minister. How the tables of turned. Now Mr Musharraf is under house [...]Statistically speaking: how rational people can disagree
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on Saturday May 18th, 2013 at 09:01 AM
Tom has written a blog of despair at the reluctance of the public to accept the evidence of statistical surveys when determining what to believe. Ironically, his evidence for this comes from a statistical survey. Only 9 per cent of the sample declared themselves swayed by such data. To such sceptics Id offer half a [...]Gay shoes and groovy bishops: no wonder young people are losing their faith
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on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 08:23 PM
From Saturdays Daily Telegraph The results of the 2011 Census, published last year, were pretty devastating for Christianity, indicating that it will be a minority religion in Britain by 2018. This week we were given a more detailed breakdown of the figures. I took one look at them and thought: OMG. Thats short for Oh [...]Nigel Farage and Scotland’s Left-wing media mafia
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on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 05:36 PM
Nigel Farage has been discovering the hard way that politics in Scotland is often a rough business. He put the phone down on the BBC Good Morning Scotland programme on Friday morning, believing the reporters line of questioning displayed the xenophobia that had led to him being barricaded in an Edinburgh pub just around the [...]Ignore the squeaks from the timid. It’s time to enact the EU referendum bill
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on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 03:43 PM
It takes a considerable effort to cut through the fog of claim and counterclaim by Europhiles and Eurosceptics to get a clear view of just what is now happening in the House of Commons over the question of whether and when we should have a referendum on the issues (and I use the plural deliberately) [...]If politicians are opposed to gay marriage, they should be honest and say so
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on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 03:19 PM
Philip Hammond, one of the most able Cabinet ministers, laments the distraction of parliamentary time set aside for reform of the marriage laws. He says that civil partnerships are just fine. The distraction note is meant to imply detached regret. As Philip Collins at the Times tweeted, its what politicians say when they dont agree [...]Diane Abbott’s confused attack on men
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on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 01:48 PM
In a speech to the think-tank Demos, Diane Abbott, the female Labour MP, has given a horrendously matronising and ham-fisted speech entitled Britains crisis of masculinity. Britain, she suggested, is in dangerof having ageneration of British men without realistic heroes, of becoming anation of atomised, lonely, entrepreneurial boys, who often have lives without meaning. In [...]
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