The forcedly unofficial quasi-referendum on Catalonia's independence is due today (unless the Spanish government has found a way to stop it).
For background, see Simon Harris' piece here.
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Sunday, November 09, 2014
Saturday, November 08, 2014
Save The News Quiz!
I am about to try listening to Radio 4's The News Quiz yet again - the triumph of hope over expectation, will I never learn? I'd be more sympathetic to some of the PC opinions if there was even the semblance of an alternative and the audience didn't appear to be composed of sycophants.
Will the celeb selection change if Labour is spannered at the next General Election, or if it romps home with a landslide majority?
What political earthquake would it take to have someone like the late Alan Coren on the panel? What wouldn't I give to hear the Sage of Cricklewood again, and to have a proper belly-laugh?
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Will the celeb selection change if Labour is spannered at the next General Election, or if it romps home with a landslide majority?
What political earthquake would it take to have someone like the late Alan Coren on the panel? What wouldn't I give to hear the Sage of Cricklewood again, and to have a proper belly-laugh?
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Shock UK Poll Result: Greens in 6-point lead!
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| http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/ |
If manifestoes matter, check out the offers and make your choice:
http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/
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DIY Clickbait scaffolding
Bloggers! Not enough visitors? Tired of casting pearls of bitter wisdom before apathetic swine? Facebook can help! Here is a starterpack of teaser headlines garnered from today's FB offerings:
X Tells Y That Z. Y's Reply Is Priceless.
The Best X Ever. This Is Gold.
If You Think X, You Need To Read This.
What NOT To Say To X [in a Y situation). This Z Absolutely Nails It.
This X has the most amazing Y we've ever seen.
What Kind Of X Are You? [Metamorphic self-assessment questionnaire]
- Go get 'em, Floyd!
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X Tells Y That Z. Y's Reply Is Priceless.
The Best X Ever. This Is Gold.
If You Think X, You Need To Read This.
What NOT To Say To X [in a Y situation). This Z Absolutely Nails It.
This X has the most amazing Y we've ever seen.
What Kind Of X Are You? [Metamorphic self-assessment questionnaire]
- Go get 'em, Floyd!
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Friday, November 07, 2014
Miliband vote debacle
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As we all know, concerns about a leadership voting error are swirling around the Labour Party. The question being posed at the highest level is whether the ballot papers used for the 2010 leadership election were the official ones.
Izzy Shiftie, a Labour Party insider has provided us with a specimen of the the genuine ballot paper above. The question now facing the party is when and how to put right such an embarrassing mistake and who will carry the can.
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Thursday, November 06, 2014
Polar porkies?
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| From Wikipedia |
An interesting post from polarbearscience suggests to this sceptical observer that we are still being dosed with propaganda when it comes to polar bears and climate change.
Activist polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher (University of Alberta) may have gone too far this time. In an interview with Yahoo News,Derocher is quoted as saying:
“When I first started here about 30 years ago the population was about 1,200 bears and now we’re down to about 800,” team member Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta, said in a phone interview from the tundra outside Churchill.” [my bold]
There is no peer-reviewed research published anywhere that gives a population estimate of ~800 bears for Western Hudson Bay — so is this number quoted by Derocher based on some of his secret research that hasn’t been published or did he just make it up?
Make it up? Sounds like normal service to me.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Catalonia: nationalism or regionalism?
The Catalonia issue burns hotter. Recently, adoptive Catalonian Simon Harris argued here the economic and historical-cultural case for independence. Even a proposed proto-referendum run by volunteers has been suspended by the Spanish Government's Constitutional Court.
It's clear that identity is a powerful driver in these matters. Yet, as "JD" counter-argues today - in a way that certainly won't please Catalans, but the substantive point has to be addressed - breaking up Spain (there's more than one region that has separatist movements) into cantons makes the whole country easier to swallow. This is, after all, the EU's plan for the UK, with its "regions" including a trans-Channel "Arc Manche".
As with the Scots, the question has to be asked, what is the point of gaining national independence only to be ruled by an even remoter and less responsive power in the form of the European Union? Does this not play into the hands of those who divide in order to rule?
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It's clear that identity is a powerful driver in these matters. Yet, as "JD" counter-argues today - in a way that certainly won't please Catalans, but the substantive point has to be addressed - breaking up Spain (there's more than one region that has separatist movements) into cantons makes the whole country easier to swallow. This is, after all, the EU's plan for the UK, with its "regions" including a trans-Channel "Arc Manche".
As with the Scots, the question has to be asked, what is the point of gaining national independence only to be ruled by an even remoter and less responsive power in the form of the European Union? Does this not play into the hands of those who divide in order to rule?
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