Author Archives: Giolla

The spoilation of Parliament

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Just when you think that the mendacious scoundrels that sit in the palace of Westminster might have learnt to shut up and keep their heads down, they find new and interesting ways to dig up past scandals and heap more disrepute upon their heads. In this case we have three labour MP’s claiming that parliamentary privilege protects them from being prosecuted for fraud over dodgy claims (hat tip: Dizzy). However there may be a silver lining in this dark and stinking cloud, in that as observed by Captain Ranty it may yet test and revalidate the 1689 Bill of rights … Continue reading →

Climate change a belated round up

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Making use of the fact that I seem to have some free time, I thought I’d try to pull together some of the various articles that have been written about Copenhagen and Anthropogenic Global Warming (as I believe it’s now correct to call it – or is it Anthropogenic climate change today?). As it seems to be terribly relevant to state ones qualifications for having an opinion in the matter (though most of the politicians making the decisions have no science background but they’ll still spend the money) I shall state for the record that I’ve no experience in computer … Continue reading →

Photography in public places the battle continues

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You can tell that the problem with the police harassing photographers for taking pictures in public places is getting serious when 365 establishment photographer write a letter to the Telegraph (hat tip Samizdata). If things get much worse they’ll write to the editor of the Times and use green ink. Now I’m not convinced this will do much good as the disconnect appears to be between the 646 that sit and make laws and those that implement them on the streets as they see fit. The letter quite reasonably points out that if you were up to no good, you’d … Continue reading →