Category Archives: MSM

Leveson calls for more pointless legislation

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There’s been an awful lot written about the Leveson report, and I’m sure you’ve already read a fair chunk of it, so I don’t intend to say that much. The pointlessness of the whole investigation was summed up for me by this tweet from “The bard: The Bard (@TwitTwotBard): “Can anybody name one press wrongdoing identified by Leveson that wasn’t covered by existing laws? A law to say the press must obey the law?” As far as I’ve been able to determine, there’s not a thing the press are in trouble for that wasn’t already covered by existing laws. So … Continue reading →

What would Stalin do?

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Over at Dizzy Thinks, there is a rather fine article asking if it’s time to apply the Stalin test once more. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but it poses this very simple question, which I’ve paraphrased as “What would Stalin do?” being more eloquent he sums it up as: “The purpose of the question is to ask ourselves what the potential future enabling power of our actions might be. In fact, we don’t have to use Stalin. We could as easily use someone closer to home, our own authoritarian and totalitarian dictator, Oliver Cromwell and his puritanical zeal. … Continue reading →

The British tax system hate it or hate it

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Thanks to other people posting things to the book of faces I stumbled across two rather differing views of the problems with the UK tax system. One from the Gaurdian that puts the blame largely on companies trying not to pay more tax than they have to and the other from the Telegraph who see the problem as being the system itself. From here I’d say the Guardian is doing an excellent job of describing the symptoms of the problems described by the Telegraph – I’m not sure I agree with what they seem to think is the cure though. … Continue reading →