For the Lols

A certain picture of a young Mr. Cameron standing alongside a old Tory Chancellor on an historic day is for some reason rather popular in the page hit statistics. Now that Dave is unfortunately back in Downing Street, it is perhaps time to once again pay tribute to the supreme economic literacy of Chancellor Lamont and his [...]

A response to Sir Roger Douglas

The University of Auckland’s Student Magazine “Craccum” this week published a guest column by ACT party MP Sir Roger Douglas  in which he argued the case for his Private Members bill (due for its first reading in the NZ House of Representatives) which calls for the possible reintroduction of  a lower minimum wage for workers aged 16 and [...]

Gordon Saved Us

The First of the January-February Blogs, written the first week in February 2010 For much of my time in NZ, while the British Pound Sterling nosedived against the Kiwi Dollar, I would mutter to myself; “Gordon will save us”. I have the utmost faith in the Prime Minister and the fantastic job he is doing. [...]

10 for 2010

Well, Iain Dale did one, so have other Tory bloggers. The Guardian had some of its columnists do a nice video on the topic. I thought I’d follow suit and other some speculative and pointless predictions for the year ahead in the political world: 1) The 2010 UK general election will be held in May [...]

A lesson from history

Whilst stuck in rural [i.e. no internet] Somerset, I passed some of the time reading an old book on US history. Flicking through the section covering the interwar period I came across a particular story which – while under completely different circumstances sounded strangely familiar… 1932 – War Veteran’s “march on Washington” “Politicians whom the gods [...]

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