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Nice idea, if dangerous!

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Do NOT even think of reading this

Australian PM — Why Julia lost the Ashes

Some of you disregarded my advice on a previous article and were shocked and offended by Australian humour and Australian vocabulary.

Today’s antipodean article is written by a more literary bloke, and is hilarious if you genuinely understand down-under politics and cricket.

The comments and the author’s responses to the comments are mirth-making too, to those of us that have had the lobotomy.

I emphasise that all those who sneered at the earlier offering from The Punch should avoid this one like the plague. John Mackie, Soutie and Sheona may possibly find it entertaining – or perhaps even they may not.

You have been warned. If you ignore the warning and then complain, you will be probably soundly abused and insulted – and Boadicea will not protect you! 😀

More about Images for Pseu, Val and everyone else (updated)

Well done!

Please will everyone read these notes all the way through; they are quite long, but you may find just the thing you need. Continue reading “More about Images for Pseu, Val and everyone else (updated)”

BBC radio three

BBC Radio Three on iplayer – available unfortunately only in the UK
Within the past few weeks Radio Three has become available on the Web on the BBC iplayer at about twice the quality of Digital Radio – absolutely crystal clear. Sadly for some reason they haven’t explained, it is available only within the UK. I don’t know if it is a copyright or technical issue…

Barmy Army Pub

Stopped outside here today and popped in for a beer, it was hot, very hot, no not the beer, the weather!

That’s my parking bay right outside the front door Continue reading “Barmy Army Pub”

Political Slogans

Without slogans some politicians would be speechless. The catchphrase presently doing the rounds in the UK and America is ‘small government’. Like all such rallying cries its precise meaning is unclear, so allowing a range of interpretations. When I suggested to one of its users that the mess Britain is in resulted from ‘small government’ in financial services and other fields, he replied ‘I take it that you mean regulation.’

Well, yes, I regard regulation as an important function of government. It is surely the government’s job to legislate, either to regulate activity, or to enable it. Certainly, one can imagine regulation operating in some areas without government involvement, but there are many activities that need to be regulated by disinterested parties, and that often means by government. Absence of the government from these activities leaves a vacuum that is invariably filled by those with a vested interest in what is and is not regulated. We find government regulation replaced by direction from self-serving cartels, or industry associations working to diminish competition. I recall that price rings were common in the fifties, Continue reading “Political Slogans”