Category Archives: Clarksonism

Posts in category: "Clarksonism":

Bloggertarians rebutted

18Apr09 – 09:33

Point by point by Banditry.

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Tories | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The TaxPayers Alliance and pension politics

10Mar09 – 20:52

No-one's favourite libertarian right front organisation the TaxPayers Alliance put out another report on council pensions recently. It is, unsurprisingly, very critical of providing council workers with a secure few grand a year as a retirement income, and calls for unspecified 'reform' of the Local Government Pension Scheme. But quite apart from the predictability of the message, the TPA's report also reveals just how shaky their understanding of pensions is.

By tomp | Also posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

He would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids

24Feb09 – 20:30

Iain Martin - a man who, I cannot emphasise strongly enough, is employed as a political journalist by a national broadsheet newspaper - has the following to say about the Prime Minister's political project:
Gordon Brown, on the other hand, knew exactly what he wanted to do: under the cover of pro-market rhetoric, to massively increase [...]

By ZaNuLieBore | Also posted in Blogging, Churnalism, Tories | Tagged | Comments (0)

Spectacularly reactionary and illiberal. And ignored.

20Feb09 – 01:37

"The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off."

Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms
Like a lot of English people in the grip of Posh People’s Disease at the time, Evelyn Waugh had a few wobbles in the 1930s.
He and his chinless associates were tempted by Franco in Spanish Civil [...]

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Democracy, Liberal simpletons, Tories | Tagged , | Comments (0)

No, I’M Henry Porter … And So Is My Wife

19Feb09 – 18:44

Henry's glorious day draws ever nearer.

By Olly Onions | Tagged | Comments (0)

Refugees flock to Guardian’s Liberty Central

15Feb09 – 16:16

Thousands of persecuted contributors to the Guardian's Comment Is Free have set up a make-shift refugee camp outside the newspaper's offices in north London. Sheltering in tents and impromptu wooden structures at the camp known as 'Liberty Central,' the refugees are seeking out a mysterious prophet known to some as Po' Rterhe Nry and to [...]

By Olly Onions | Tagged | Comments (0)

General Winter

03Feb09 – 20:17

A letter in today's Telegraph:
SIR – If only the Germans had known that all they had to do was wait for snow to engulf Britain, and then invade.
Diane Haynes
London SW10
Yeah. Worked in Russia.

By ZaNuLieBore | Also posted in Newspapers | Comments (0)

Win Beadle’s money

22Jan09 – 23:46

Henry Porter is so convinced of the rightness of his own position on civil liberties that he will give £100 of his own money to anyone who can come up with coherent arguments against it. He is the only judge of whether these arguments are coherent. If he doesn't award the £100 - a tiny proportion [...]

By ZaNuLieBore | Comments (0)