It’s that morning-in-the-bathroom-feeling, sometimes a Balotelli moment: “Why always me?” Does Angela wonder whether leadership is really what she craves für Das Faterland? Couldn’t she fancy the occasional scherzo at second fiddle?
Category: Politics
Helleva time
I know you like to catch up now and then with news of the Kuddly Kinnocks, alias the Welsh Cash-Machine; whose favourite daughter-in-law, Gucci Helle has just become the least liked PM Denmark has ever known, with a 17% approval rating after 9 months in the job. Continue reading “Helleva time”
Why on earth not?
The GCSE exam concerned was Religious Studies. One question was: “Why are some people prejudiced against Jews?” But the Education Secretary, challenged by the Jewish Chronicle, said, “To suggest that anti-Semitism can ever be explained, rather than condemned, is insensitive and, frankly, bizarre.”
Lies, damned lies and statistics
Warning: this is very long. It is a response to a blogger on MyT, who quoted some statistics.
If you are remotely interested in responses thereon, here is the post.
It was intended to explain a little more about the use and misuse of statistics, and how demographic projections are produced and their validity.
Some observations from the Pew Report.
All the statistics and quotations, unless otherwise attributed are from this report entitled “The Future of the Global Muslim Population -Projections for 2010-2030” and from here “Faith on the Move-The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants”
But before I begin, I would remind you of a particularly misleading video clip which has been doing the rounds for quite some time. This is one of the many examples of how statistics, and these particular numbers are wildly inaccurate, are used in an alarmist way.
Not fit for office
Vince Cable, the silly old unreformed socialist fool who masquerades as a Lib Dem Minister for Business (not that there is that much difference between socialism and modern day liberalism) has objected, in no uncertain terms, to the very sensible Beecroft Report which suggests there is too much red tape involved in the hiring of suitable and the firing of unsuitable employees, and that the UK economy would grow much more quickly if it was removed.
Beecroft has retaliated by claiming that Cable is not fit for office. I think I know who I believe in. Of course, Wavy Davy is sitting on the shelf, or should that be the fence?!
Passing the black hat
The self-appointed global jury of seven just men (and Angela) is still out on the fate of the Hellenic nation. Which is a bit of a surprise, since it must be obvious that membership of the Eurozone is a price too high for their shallow pockets. But nobody among the eight wise persons wants to drive home the final nail – they are all content to remark that “we affirm our interest in Greece remaining in the eurozone while respecting its commitments”, or in other words, pay your bills or get out. Cold-bloodied, eh?
The odd-person-out at the get-together is of course Angela. She can’t encourage Greece to leave the Euroclub because her own economy stands to take the biggest hit and she can’t go for Eurogrowth because effective devaluation will hit her hardest. And she dislikes the fact that these seven global fellas have the affrontery to discuss ‘her’ Europroblems. Poor Ange, now bereft of a little French shoulder to cry on too.
The envy of less happier lands
By way of recognition, nay celebration of the hegemony of this royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by Nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea (etc.), some wonderfully prescient people in the Politecnico di Milano have decided to adopt our language for the purposes of teaching.
This is but the beginning, in Jubilee and Olympic year, of Britain’s Big Comeback. (No, not flatulence, you fool.) Our Renaissance, our call from the bench of civilisation in extra time, with the World Cup of Cups itself at stake.
Would that the Argentinians and the Spanish might abandon their forlorn attempts to claim our sovereign territories and bow down to a superior race of men (and a few girls these days too).
(The organ sounds a crescendo of chords to lead us in Jerusalem, swell to great, no less.)
Was Hitler Left Wing?
Was Hitler left wing and were the Nazis Fascists?
When I was taught history at school, I vaguely remember that Hitler was most definitely right wing. Now I know that the party Hitler first joined was the popular German Social Democrat Party, which was then renamed the National Socialist German Workers Party, or the Nazi Party, which shifted the balance from Socialist to Nationalist. The appeal in the first instance was most definitely to the workers and the unions, but Hitler engineered the split eventually from the GSD socialists because he abhorred socialism and communism.
You put your left foot in
On the other hand……..
Boadicea's Chariot 
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