Day: December 6, 2005
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FAIRNESS: what should we do to reduce inequalities in health, education and prosperity? Full paper. This is in many ways one of the weakest sections of the paper, taking a very narrow view of fairness with none of the deliberation of different definitions that was found in the Tax Commission and I have already made…
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David Davis: So ladies and gentlemen, when I ask you to welcome the new leader of the Tory party, I am also asking you to welcome the next Conservative prime minister – David Cameron. Sorry, what was that? “Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government,” did you say?
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Sayeth some bloke called John Siegenthaler: The marketplace of ideas ultimately will take care of the problem but in the meantime, what happens to people like me? You’ll just have to deal with obscurity like the rest of us, mate. Get over it. Or press “edit”.
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For once, I find myself agreeing with John Prescott. For once, I find myself understanding John Prescott: A lot of ruddy builders shout about planning, but find it more profitable to hold on to land in tremendous land banks. They are on to a damn good thing. They blame planning, but I wish they would…
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Jonathan Calder beats me to it and does a much better write up on Polly Toynbee‘s article on Narnia today than I could hope to aspire. I planned to merely say this: Toynbee here falls for the same inconsistency and double standard that a lot of atheist/humanist writers fall for (I write as an atheist…