Daily Archives: 2010/01/17

The new puritanism

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I’ve been meaning to write this for quite a while and never quite getting round to it, but the recent post over at Devils Kitchen has prompted to actually do something. If you read Devils Kitchen and Leg Iron already you can probably just skip this as I’m not going to say anything new and will be linking to them extensively, as I’m just trying to pull a load of stuff together for my own benefit. This thread goes back quite a long way especially over on Leg Irons, who seems to have predicted events rather well – though we’ve … Continue reading →

UKIP a correction

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I really must apologise, my previous article UKIP losing the plot I’d rather presumed that UKIP wanted a blanket ban on the burqa. However as Dick Puddlecote points out over at Old Holborns this isn’t actually the case. They just want to ban it in public buildings and allow for it to be banned in private buildings as well and they actually want to ban “anything which conceals a woman’s face“. Which is marginally more reasonable, except why just women’s faces? Surely experience tells us that men with covered faces are far more likely to be a problem? And what … Continue reading →

Blogging by edict

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I’m up way too late, but it’s the weekend, so here’s a wonderful bit of amusement, courtesy of Anna Raccoon – a dissection of why the left aren’t generally terribly good at blogging. Though I do find it odd that they can’t get their heads round all the free blog providers as they’re normally quite good at taking handouts.