Author Archives: Giolla

Protests and pagents

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Another rambling post I’m afraid, very soon London will be over run for the sum by both the pageantry for the queens jubilee and then shortly after the Olympics. During this period I intend to avoid central London as much as possible, other people it seems plan to go into London not so much to enjoy the festivities (such as we’re told they’ll be) as to protest them. Yet again I wonder about the motives and intelligence of the people planning protests that I’ve read of so far, though at the same time I hope that they’ll be no arrests … Continue reading →

In the pay of the bogey man

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It’s too hot at the moment to write anything much so instead I’ll just share a couple of links, first from the ever informative Katabasis, it’d seem that evil big oil profits quite nicely from global warming alarmism thank you very much. Whilst on the subject of the bogey may I also draw your attention to this event Obviously you’ll only want to go to such an event if you’re in the pay of both big tobacco and big alcohol. Sadly I won’t be able to attend as I’ll be at a “big oil” sponsored event at the time doing … Continue reading →

The stupidity it burns

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Having spent the day in a management training course, which invovled going to the office and thus trains and thus news papers I got exposed to above normal levels of stupid. So I thought I’d do the only “decent” thing and share the pain, so here is the Wednesday stupidity round up. ( I won’t mention Gordon Brown saying “told you so” and that te world needed to bail out the Euro). Starting with the Metro and following up from yesterday it seems that the Government has announced reforms to the drive for renewable energy (wind farm subsidies for rich … Continue reading →