40 posts tagged uk politicians

CHENNAI, India (AFP) - The death toll from contaminated alcohol in southern India rose to 160 on Wednesday with people still drinking the lethal brew after the first reported deaths at the weekend, police said.

I’ve been meaning to write about a few non-book review subjects for a while now, but have had a difficult time trying to determine precisely what kind of commentary I want this blog to contain. It may seem a little odd to open with this particular topic, especially now that other pieces of news have

Great Mark Steyn-ism, from The Corner (NRO.) Since, as soon as nobody is “poor”  anymore, then nobody will vote for stupid bloodsucking blood-drenched stalinism and utopian policies, or “redistribution”, then the buggers have to “go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in.” So that’s why we’ve got all the, er, certain kinds of people we’ve got, then.

The Petroleum Rant May 1st, 2008 Steve Posted in Fuel, Jo, London, Newcastle, Rant, Serious | 1 Comment » I’m going to jump on the bandwagon here… I’m also going to have a bit of a rant… Me?… bandwagon and rant? Never. Ok… move over fellow band wagonners… here I come! Petrol.

Wow! As a nerd on the PR and marketing beat I find this to be absolutely astounding and heartening: the UK is about to make it a crime for companies to misrepresent themselves as consumers in their online marketing. That means, for example, that a company setting up a fake blog to hype its own products could be prosecuted, fined, and jailed.

THE UK NEEDS TO DO MORE Taking cue from the US, the UK is also doubling the paltry aid to Pakistan. Britain will also invest in the power sector of Pakistan with an enhancement of a few hundred MW. Pakistan needs 10,000 MW of electricity, and with all the tall promises of help, no assistance has been provided in the sectors of solar and wind energy.

One of the best reasons to switch to FOX News is CNN’s Richard Quest. A know-it-all “business” journalist, who could not pass a pop quiz in any economics course I have ever taught.  An unctuous mimic of Uriah Heep, he is an insult to the intelligence of CNN viewers, someone who reminds me of “Martin”

David Davis I would like “England” to be an idea. Really. It is so good and so right, so inevitable if you take to its logical conclusion the philosophy of Natural Rights together with ordinary conservatism, which is to say “liberalism” (our definition, not the Democrats’) which is what humans do

 So Alistair Darling is planning to signal changes to compensate those people hit hardest by the recent tax reforms. Yet amidst the political furore over the loss of the 10% tax band, something has been missed by everyone.

From The New Scotsman, via Ken Lammers: For almost 13 hours, the woman had been held hostage at knifepoint by a convicted sex attacker who repeatedly raped her as police stood outside his home trying to negotiate her release. But when Sean McKay fell asleep, his terrified victim finally saw the chance to end her horrific ordeal.