UK Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party’s leadership lost touch both with its own members and the public. In a speech to the national policy forum, Mr Miliband proposed reforms aimed at making the party less insular and its decision-making more open. He said the Labour Party “can only win if we change” [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Immigration, Politics, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged ali g, barack obama, ed miliband, sacha baron cohen, UK labour party
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This post is in part a very belated response to a series of posts by Jim Belshaw (here and here). Sorry it’s so late, Jim! I do think about these things, but they take a while to percolate. What do people want out of their lawyers, and do lawyers provide these things? Part of the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Law, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged adversarial method, bare defences, civil procedure, cognitive bias, Jim Belshaw, Law, lawyers, repossessing houses, sun tzu, The Art of War
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Last night my husband and I were watching the first episode of A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver. I love archaeology. For a large portion of my childhood and beyond, I wanted to be an archaeologist. I’m fascinated by glimpses of people in the past. One of the things I always feel sad [...]
You know, sometimes that awful joke in Borat was true. Which means, ahem, that it isn’t funny any more. The remains of 17 bodies found at the bottom of a medieval well in England could have been victims of persecution, new evidence has suggested. The most likely explanation is that those down the well were [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Britain, Economics, History, Law
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Tagged anti-Semitism, banking, BBC, Borat, David Hume, david ricardo, History Cold Case, horrible history parts three and seventeen, Jews in Britain, Natural law, Norwich, wunch of bankers
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It’s been a long time since the idea that people could learn while interacting with a computer (or other electronic device) was new. People in our Engineering faculty talk about testing students using computers in the 1980s, and claim that as ‘online learning’. At the Uni where I work there’s been a group of people [...]
David J alerted me to an article which says that Australian kids are taking luxuries for granted: Yesterday’s luxuries have become today’s necessities, giving children a bad case of “affluenza”, parenting experts say. Increasing wealth, cheap toys, gadgets and time-poor parents have produced a generation of children who often can’t tell the difference between need [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Children, Economics, Motherhood, Parenthood, Personal, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Society, The Left
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Tagged affluenza, charlie and the chocolate factory, Charlie Bucket, Children, class, consumerism, equality, needs, wants
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Bizarre factoid for a Friday: men who are tattooed with Ned Kelly are more likely to be killed or kill themselves. For non-Australian readers, Ned Kelly is a famous Australian bushranger (highwayman) who wore homemade plate armour and was hanged in Melbourne after he was captured in a police siege in Glenrowan. The Daily Mail [...]
CLIMATE change is a global problem that all humanity has to tackle because “human beings can’t live on the moon”, the Dalai Lama says. On a one-day visit to Parliament House today, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader appeared unfussed that Julia Gillard had refused to meet with him, at one stage referring to the Prime [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Funnies, Philosophy, Politics, Religion
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Tagged china, dalai lama, Julia Gillard, midnight oil, music, Peter Garrett, tibet
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Please excuse this extended exercise in textual analysis. I’m quoting from a form letter which was the response to a constituent’s enquiry by Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people: I believe that the Government owes a duty to disabled people to promote their independence and equality and I also believe that it has a [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Welfare
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Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, house of commons, maria miller, personal independence payment, PIP, sheila gilmore, UK parliament, welfare reform bill
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A worried member of the public has forced Leicester City Council to admit it is unprepared for a zombie invasion. The authority received a Freedom of Information request which said provisions to deal with an attack, often seen in horror films, were poor. The “concerned citizen” said the possibility of such an event was one [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Drugs, England, Fark!, Funnies, Politics, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged brainz!, dawn of the dead, emergencies, freedom of information act, it's the end of the world as we know it, kuru, leicester city council, leicester mayor, peter soulsby, resilience UK, UK politics, undead, zombie apolcalypse, zombies
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