Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Pies and Prejudice
"Margaret Thatcher tried her best to bleed Britain's libraries to death" p44 - [prophetic of how Cameron's Big Society tried to destroy them]
"Thirty years ago, as Nick Cohen records in Cruel Britannica, one third of journalists were based outside London. Now ninety per cent of reporters work in the capital."
Ebury press, 2007
"Thirty years ago, as Nick Cohen records in Cruel Britannica, one third of journalists were based outside London. Now ninety per cent of reporters work in the capital."
Ebury press, 2007
Monday, May 02, 2011
Heather v Morrisey
Heather, the wife, is provoked by Dermot O'Leary opening his show with "William, It Was Really Nothing" by the Smiths:
"The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down".
"Well, why don't you move then," she shouts at the radio. Obviously a follower of Norman Tebbit
"The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down".
"Well, why don't you move then," she shouts at the radio. Obviously a follower of Norman Tebbit
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Kay on Markets
The Truth About Markets, John Kay
Allen Lane, 2003
"If ever a country has been run by economists it was New Zealand. From 1984 to 1999 New Zealand followed policies of privatization and deregulation, and pursued labour market flexibility and reductions in social benefits. during this period the country experienced the worst economic performance of any rish state. Its decline was bleakly symbolized in January 1998 when the supply cables of the unregulated Mercury Energy failed, blacking out the Central Business District of Auckland. Seven weeks elapsed before regular power supplies were restored with the aid of the New Zealand army."
Kay also quotes on p 78 Karl Marx in Capital as writing: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. I'm sure this is the description, from the Acts of the Apostles, of the way the early Christians lived.
Allen Lane, 2003
"If ever a country has been run by economists it was New Zealand. From 1984 to 1999 New Zealand followed policies of privatization and deregulation, and pursued labour market flexibility and reductions in social benefits. during this period the country experienced the worst economic performance of any rish state. Its decline was bleakly symbolized in January 1998 when the supply cables of the unregulated Mercury Energy failed, blacking out the Central Business District of Auckland. Seven weeks elapsed before regular power supplies were restored with the aid of the New Zealand army."
Kay also quotes on p 78 Karl Marx in Capital as writing: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. I'm sure this is the description, from the Acts of the Apostles, of the way the early Christians lived.
