Wednesday, 31 August 2011

David Mitchell, Hitler, and laughing at foreigners

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In this Sunday’s Observer the wonderful David Mitchell wrote about how one of the things that makes him most proud to be British is our nat...
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Thursday, 18 August 2011

David Starkey's "authority" as a historian

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Update:  Here's another re-heated blog post from some time ago, now that yet another historian (see the last one about Niall Ferguson) ...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

The riots: I blame the parents.

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So it goes like this.  1: If you’re a banker who takes reckless risks and ruins entire economies, wrecking or at least threatening the liv...
Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Danny Alexander and the drivelling rhetoric of The Collaboration: “I want to be able to say I did the things I thought were right”

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/31/danny-alexander-cuts-are-right “I want to be able to say I did the things I thought were ...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Gay marriage. It's simple. And complicated.

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New bit: Some time after I first wrote this in July 2011, I saw a gay person (I forget who) write something to the effect that it shouldn...
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

An anarchic, tiny, and elf-like PS to a previous post.

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Okay, so, the other day, I moaned at length about missing my Guardian and being forced to read The Daily Torygraph instead.   Though I made ...
Tuesday, 19 July 2011

My day with The Daily Telegraph: why I need to be more of a retard.

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Being on holiday is, of course, on the whole a good thing.   But it does have its drawbacks, and one of them, at least if you’re overseas, a...
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