It begins

Is a radical a broken Conservative, one who believes in the principles of his country and whose conditioned inhibitions have snapped after too long contemplating the suborning of the Constitution?

How interesting that businessman-turned-professional-investor Karl Denninger should host a YouTube video by a subversive group that intends to mount cyberattacks on "The Machine"; a video that concludes with the soundtrack of Mario Savio's 1964 sit-down protest "put your bodies upon the gears" speech at the University of Berkeley, California.

And now that speech no longer sounds like merely the effusion of youthful testosterone, the power-ambition of spoiled adolescence; it begins to sounds reasonable, even to an older, cynical man like me, who never bought into revolution even as a student. It begins to sound like the only, desperate chance.

In that beginning are the seeds of a bigger beginning.

New Con-LibDem pact?

Why is the present Conservative government so keen on forging an alliance with the Libyan democrats?

Linguistic survival

In Hereford today, I told the tea shop owner it was the best cup of tea I'd had from a cafe in years. Delighted, he burst out, "Goo' boy!"

A seed crystal of suspicion

Yes, an SAS team was captured by Libyan farmhands how interesting. I've met one or two SAS headbangers; "They've lost the plot," was the opinion of a regular Army captain I met in the nineties.

But I'm more interested in the presence of a British spy on a remote farm in the desert 30 miles south of Benghazi, ready-placed to rendezvous with them six months before they arrived - and three months before even the unrest in Tunisia had begun.

Wisconsin News

For those of you following the union-busting moves in Ohio and Wisconsin:

Breaking news: Wisconsin has immediate openings for 250,000 serfs. Must provide own smock.

Extrapolation

Going to pick up the paper yesterday, I found a penny on the pavement and put it it our collecting-box at home. Today, 10p (two five-pence pieces). So tomorrow I expect to find a pound, and Thursday a £10 note.

After that, it'll have to be cheques.

I think I have discovered in Nature an economic model for our times.

Overentitled scribbler juggles smoking petard

Headline of an article by Max Hastings in today's Daily Mail: "How very different it might have been had someone spanked [Prince] Andrew's bottom when he was young."

Just wait until the age of the death of deference turns its attention to you, you po-faced toerag.

I have also submitted this as a comment to Mr Hastings' article; I am not hopeful that it will be allowed through by the flappers.