Tag Archives: Nanny State

10 more reasons Socialism can’t and will never work.

By scrubber | Published: June 3, 2011
William John Henry Boetcker. Who? Born in Hamburg in 1873, he migrated to America as a young adult, becoming a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival. Wikipedia says that he “is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots. Originally published in 1916…”. Personally, I would argue that most people, certainly outside [...]
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Socialism encapsulated

By scrubber | Published: May 26, 2011
Here is a picture (thanks to Old Holborn for posting it) which shows clearly why Socialism doesn’t, and will never, work. As Margaret Thatcher once said: “The trouble with Socialists is that eventually they run out of other people’s money”. Click the picture to enlarge it, which is well worth doing, but try not to be [...]
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Nanny says: have a few, it’s good for you…

By scrubber | Published: February 23, 2011
A study published yesterday in the British Medical Journal, which rejoices in the mind-numbing title of “Association of alcohol consumption with selected cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis” shows that moderate drinking can help prevent heart disease and stroke. Good old Auntie Beeb, says this: the review of 30 years of research “showed a [...]
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How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
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Ecotards overstep the mark again.

By scrubber | Published: October 2, 2010
I hardly know where to begin with this one. I think I’ll work backwards on it, and start with the 10:10 website. 10:10? Who he? No, I hadn’t heard of it either. It seems that the 10th of October is going to be a “Day of doing”. The aim, apparently, is “Cutting carbon 10% at a [...]
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Australian lawyer tests which burns better – the Koran or the Bible

By DiamondGeezer | Published: September 13, 2010
Am I the only one who finds this quite amusing? An Atheist Australian lawyer, Alex Stewart, posted a video of himself smoking with pages of both the Koran and the Bible in an effort to discover which burns better. Wikio Wikio
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HMRC: All your dosh are belong to us

By scrubber | Published: September 7, 2010
Sometimes I ponder on this blog, its future, the direction it has taken and will in future, and not just because the rest of the writing team seems to be permanently on holiday. We originally set out to expose institutional stupidity, but during the Election campaign wrote much from our joint perspective of EU-scepticism, broadly supporting [...]
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It’s official! Our children are even cleverer than last year

By scrubber | Published: August 19, 2010
Firstly, apologies for the paucity of posts lately. I’ve been away a while, and the back-up team seems to have gone AWOL as well. Anyway, I popped home today for lunch and caught the local BBC News. The piece I saw was the usual short clip about how more A levels have been passed at higher [...]
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Coalition Government launches “Your Freedom” initiative.

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2010
Today, as has been widely reported in the MSM, Nick Clegg launched the Coalition Government’s “Your Freedom” initiative, where they are asking us to tell them what laws we want repealed, where the Government is snooping too much, strangling us in red tape, and so on. All to the good on the face of it. [...]
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The economic consequences of Mr. Brown

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2010
My thanks to our blogging colleague Old Holborn for bringing our attention to the following youtube clip of a speech by Professor Stein Ringen, and thence, by extension, the rather longer version below it. The subject is a book by Professor Ringen called “The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown”: quite a subject… The good Professor is [...]
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