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When the ginger stepkid has to cheer you up you know you’re an outcast

April 11th, 2013 · 12 Comments

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Nice line

October 30th, 2012 · 6 Comments

If you don’t become seriously anti-poverty when Jesus tells you, I’m not sure David Frum makes much of a difference.

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Quote of the day

September 12th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Published and true are not synonyms. We all know this about newspapers. But it applies to “peer reviewd” papers too.

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Communism is just great

July 30th, 2012 · 37 Comments

The optimal organization for a family is communist, but this doesn’t generalize to large societies, a point that most leftists can’t fathom. But as with any other organisational method scale does matter.

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Word

April 3rd, 2012 · 10 Comments

The biggest-ever experiment in back-to-the-land hippie lifestyle is now known as the Dark Ages. Matt Ridley.

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Quote of the Day

October 25th, 2011 · 4 Comments

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is “forbidden”, whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is “compulsory”. – jmc 1994 Via

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Quote of the day

October 16th, 2011 · 18 Comments

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. Yet pundits continue to hallucinate trends [...]

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Quite

September 18th, 2011 · 11 Comments

“We’re living in primate heaven. We’re warm, dry, we’re not hungry, we don’t have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?” Stephen Pinker

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Quote of the day

August 20th, 2011 · No Comments

On Friday, the earl contacted The Daily Telegraph to distance himself from his barrister’s comments and insisted he was by no means “down and out”. In fact, he added, he was “merely down to my last stately home”. The Earl of Cardigan.

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Line of the day

July 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment

the implications of the Greeks making a drachma out of a crisis

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Twitter of the day

June 19th, 2011 · No Comments

Here.

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Quote of the Day

June 18th, 2011 · No Comments

My mum used to say to me, “If somebody doesn’t like you, fuck ‘em, they’ve got bad taste.” Bob Hoskins.

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Peej

October 30th, 2010 · No Comments

“How would Adam Smith fix a mess such as the current recessionary aftermath of a financial collapse? Sorry, but it’s fixed already. The answer to a decline in the value of speculative assets is to pay less for them. Job done. Don’t Vote (2010)

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Quote of the Day

October 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

No, my actual (rather small) point is that when the aspirational poor were previously shunted to distant dumping grounds, the biggest error was in not sending us far enough away from people like Polly Toynbee and her metrocentric ilk; those for whom if it doesn’t happen in London, then it doesn’t really happen at all.

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Quote of the day II

September 10th, 2010 · No Comments

While I do not have a boyfriend, I do have a friend who is homosexual and I once asked him “Do you ever think about having sex with me because you are gay?” to which he replied “Do you ever think about having sex with Rosie O’Donnell because you are straight? Same thing.”

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Quote of the day

September 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Even now, I fail to see how killing patients through bureaucratic stupidity is somehow going to stop a newly resurgent Luftwaffe dropping a bomb on a maternity wing in Dartford.

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Quote of the day

September 7th, 2010 · No Comments

For a politician to be only disbelieved by 12% of the population is extraordinary

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Quote of the day

August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Most people operate under the golden mean, defined by Aristotle as “you can take the piss, but you can’t take the piss too much.”

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Tempus mutandis

August 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Suddenly I was seeing coppers armed with submachine guns on the streets of London, which can be slightly unnerving to a former armed robber, believe me. Noel Smith

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Quote of the day

August 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Chávez, in other words, is very close to the climactic moment when he will announce that he is a poached egg and that he requires a very large piece of buttered toast so that he can lie down and take a soothing nap. Hitch.

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