Author Archives: Giolla

Purile amusement

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Not got anything terribly insightful or clever on this one (so no change there) but the juxtaposition of these two links on the book of face to day amused me terribly. Via a feminist connection we have: A campaign against page 3 – or more specifically naked breasts in the Sun. I do think the Sun is missing a trick by not just renumbering their pages so that they go 1,2,4 and thus satisfy all those campaigns against page 3 but that’s just my surrealist side talking. However the other link that was posted in close proximity was… The Sun … Continue reading →

Liberty Forum London

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Thanks to a post over at SamizData my attention was brought to the upcoming Liberty League Freedom Forum in London. the line up of speakers and talks looks good and being close enough to not need accommodation at £25 quid it’d be daft not to. Given my recent fun and games with Drinkaury I’m really quite looking forward to these talks: Chris Snowdon, Director of the Lifestyle Economics Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and author of “Sock Puppets: How the government lobbies itself and why”, on “Are you paying for Prohibition?” Wolf von Laer, chairman of European Students … Continue reading →

This is not equality

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Now that Drinkaury is over – though of course the fight against the puritans go on, it seems I missed all sorts of other things. This means I’m afraid that I’ll be doing a few catch up posts on the bits of news which didn’t entirely escape my attention. One of those things I’m afraid was this whole “gay marriage” thing. As you may have suspected I’ve a couple of problems with this legislation. The first of which is why are they even bothering with this at the moment, as last I checked: it wasn’t in anyone’s manifesto, it wasn’t … Continue reading →