Day: December 20, 2007
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Good grief – it’s all memes this time of year! Well, I’ve been tagged by Alix Mortimer for the Crazy 8 meme, and so I’ll have a go: 8 things I am passionate about: Land value taxation Intergenerational equity Secularism Electoral reform (STV to be precise – god I’m a cliché) Human rights 2000AD Science…
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Gavin Whenman has tagged me for this desktop meme, so given that I am currently trying to encourage people to take part in a meme of my own, I have complied. Bloody embarrassing. I feel like I’m showing people a picture of me in my underwear. All those scraggy files filling the things up. Anyway,…
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Up: Chris Huhne (to Home Affairs): no big surprise that Chris is one of the big winners here. Brave of Clegg to invite comparisons: if Huhne does too good a job it might be used against his predecessor in the role. Ed Davey (to Foreign Affairs): an interesting move. Have never pegged Ed as a…
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I find these so-called Clegg gaffes rather perplexing. I’m not a great believer in either Bowie or God, although I do at least respect the former. It’s interesting to see that as far as the Telegraph is concerned, the Bowie and Pogues gaffes were far more serious than admitting to atheism, which only goes to…
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I enjoyed being a judge so much for the ERS blog awards earlier this year I decided I might try my hand again. This time I’m to be the token male for the inaugural Campaign for Gender Balance Blog Awards. I’m not going to express my own views about who I think should be nominated…