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Posts Tagged ‘monarchy’

Give the order

Posted in Climate Change, Media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »

You all remember Old King Canute taking his throne down to the beach, right – “Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet “continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal [...]

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La même chose

Posted in Economics, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2012 | 9 Comments »

It’s one of those historic events that still, 630 years on, resonate with modern times and make your blood run cold. In 1381 the so-called “Peasant’s Revolt” led by Wat Tyler massed tens of thousands of poor people protesting the new “Poll Tax” which, like our GST, made poor people pay as much tax as [...]

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Counting out his money

Posted in Economics, Media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 7, 2012 | 9 Comments »

What slogan is above the door of the free marketeer’s think tanks? No, it’s not “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”, you naughty people. It’s “Government small enough to drown in a bathtub”. These people believe that “government” should leave banks and financial institutions alone, get rid of regulation, has no business in business, [...]

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And Justices for all

Posted in politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Look forget about the Monarchists for a moment. The ones with flags and funny hats and collections of Charles and Diana commemorative mugs; the ones who camp out for two days on the street to possibly catch a glimpse of a gloved hand waving from a speeding limousine; the ones who spontaneously sing “god save [...]

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I believe

Posted in Climate Change, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Some news items make me feel sceptical that the human race is ever going to be smart enough to walk and chew gum at the same time. Last week it was a serious interview with John Edwards, “world’s greatest psychic” in which he was asked how his “psychic powers” worked; and the news that London [...]

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Put up your dukes

Posted in politics, tagged , , , , , , , on May 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »

I know you have all forgotten the royal wedding (except for the 20 million friends, people with waaay too much time on their hands, of the Pippa’s bum facebook page) as indeed have I. The sight of an abbey full of the born-to-rule party at play, the sound of a wedding service which might have [...]

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Frustrate their knavish tricks

Posted in politics, tagged , , , on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Several things have me puzzled by the events in the Middle East, but some of them have been puzzling me for a long time. The horrible Mubarak finally went, although he has left behind the military in charge in Egypt not a new democracy. Apparently the week or so when he resisted going, when the [...]

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Jolly good fellow

Posted in politics, tagged , , , on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

not the sharpest knife in the drawer perhaps, but wears a suit, and a polo uniform well, and is apparently quite popular with the ladies

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