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Comment of The Day: Brown’s Coming Portillo Moment

May 4th, 2010, No Comments

This is Your Moment, BJaques

May 3rd, 2010, No Comments

Was rereading an archived post from 2008 this morning when I came across this comment from BJaques: “…Think there will ever be a moment when masses of Labour voters will say “fuck it, I’m voting Lib Dem?”” Roll on Thursday.

QotD: Greece and the Euro

April 30th, 2010, No Comments

From Ads without Products: The Kirchner method, rather than starving labor and the state in service of debt repayment, imposes “austerity measures” on the international banks that made the loans (confident that they’ll be back when the situation improves – and they will) and allows leeway in the domestic effects of a financial crisis (i.e. [...]

QotD: Justin Webb

April 26th, 2010, No Comments

Is there ever a good time for Justin Webb? A man so far up his own arse he can taste his hair gel when he coughs. From Chickyog on Twitter. Prog Gold of course made its opinion of Justin Webb clear as long ago as 2006.

First It Twisted My Brain, Then I Laughed Like A Drain

April 25th, 2010, No Comments

At Making Light, Kid Bitzer comments on South Park’s depiction of a certain well-known prophet wearing a bear suit : ah, but maybe the idea is that “depicting as” is an act of the will which does entail a “depicting”. like so: suppose i say, i hereby depict mt. everest as a caret: ^ i [...]

QotD: a template for a simple right-wing philosophy

March 25th, 2010, No Comments

An pseudonymous commenter takes Chris Bertram to task (unjustified) on a Crooked Timber thread and manages to come up with a template for a simple right-wing philosophy: Those designated to be on the receiving end of the violence will surely be intimidated and desist, no matter what their ideology. This is because they are thought [...]

CotD: do not be too proud of Obamacare

March 24th, 2010, No Comments

HTML Mencken provides a reality check: I’m feeling a replay of the 90’s in the sense that, then, many liberals made the mistake of claiming Bill Clinton was an awesome president because he was victim of constant, retarded right-wing attacks. This attitude soon morphed, in practice, to lumping all the attackers together, left and right, [...]

QotD: Laurie Penny on the Digital Economy Bill

March 22nd, 2010, No Comments

The Digital Economy Bill is a typical New Labour product, a hideous mixture of Mandelsonian pandering to business and Labour’s usual authoritarian impulse. It won’t work, it can’t work, but it will have dramatic side effects. Laurie Penny puts it best: Suppression of free speech isn’t just about direct censorship – it’s about creating a [...]

Comment of the Day

September 22nd, 2009, No Comments

Aaronovitch Watch had another post on a typically dreadful Nick Cohen column, which inspired commenter Phil to the following comment, the “decent left” as the Self-Righteous Brothers: I’ve got nothing against middle-class leftists. I admire their grasp of world affairs, to say nothing of their many stands on issues of principle. But if I thought [...]

Comment of The Day

August 27th, 2009, No Comments

Hello again. Did I miss anything? Anyway first day back online after a leisurely summer being poked prodded, dialysed and made hideously and explosively sick with antibiotics and weird blood chemistry and already I have my CoTD, on the death of Ted Kennedy. Exactamundo, WILFSSON: WILFSSON 27 Aug 09, 2:12am (about 6 hours ago) ‘He [...]