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Opium Wars

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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 10:12

Sky News and others are full of righteous indignation that the Chinese only care about profit and aren't thinking about the side-effects of the drugs they're manufacturing for consumption in the West.

I think the saying is something like: What goes around,

 

Soldiers Don't Always Talk Like Church Wardens

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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 06:52

'A' Company 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment on their tour and return home. reports from Afghanistan, the soldiers and families. Previous post from mid March here.

No fatalities which is an impressive result, not forgetting ten of the battalion were wounded, including two soldiers losing both legs. Welcome home.

 

Tory Totty Nicola Blackwood's Maiden Speech

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Monday, 07 June 2010 20:00

Probably the first maiden speech I've watched in full. A good speaker, none of the screeching so often heard from the Labour benches and destined for higher office as long as she keeps her fingers out of the till.

On the downside, none of which is irreparable, she occasionally looks just like Tory Boy, really, and while I might not find 'hair flicking' particularly annoying, there are limits.

 

Education Questions Gove v Balls Round Two

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Monday, 07 June 2010 16:48

Education questions 7th June. Balls opens, has a moan that the Tories are doing what Labour consistently used to do, makes up some stuff that doesn't stick which Gove bats away effortlessly.

Gove replies by taking the piss, "at variance with the facts" is a lovely euphemism, then hoiks him with his own pre election statements about cutting three thousand Head and Deputy Head teachers.

 

David Cameron: Spending Cuts

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Monday, 07 June 2010 10:15

Disappointing in it's lack of detail. Rhetoric for the most part:

 

Fraser Nelson on Today's Spending Cuts, Canadian Style

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Monday, 07 June 2010 06:18

Fraser Nelson discussing the coming spending cuts speech by David Cameron at 10:00 today with Eamonn Holmes. Some interesting points for reference:

Thatcher never actually cut public spending and the ConDem coalition is going to have to cut spending in successive years, the first time since the Second World War.

 

Ed 'To be Honest' Balls

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Sunday, 06 June 2010 12:20

Ed Balls makes a stunningly. .   .   . bad fist of his time on The Politics Show.

34 seconds, 1.44, 4.15 and 8.23. Ed is a very honest chap, just ignore his completely different stance on a whole range of policies he supported the last thirteen years.

Ed for leader, Abbot for Deputy. Give us all a laugh:

 

Libertarian Revolution in Iceland

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Sunday, 06 June 2010 09:00

Update: It was only after posting this that I thought to title it 'Old Holborn' elected mayor of Reykjavík, he does after all look just like him. . .  .sort of.

When icelandreview.com called the Best party a “joke party” earlier this spring a spokesman for the party complained. However, the party seems to be very hard to define on old fashioned political scales. Nobody can deny that party leader, Jón Gnarr, is a comedian, and one of the most popular in Iceland.

He is also a member of the Libertarian Society in Iceland according to an article in Morgunbladid.

 

Top 10 Biggest and Best Jumps Ever

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Sunday, 06 June 2010 07:29

This made me feel ill. I don't know when I started to suffer a little vertigo but it never bothered me as a child.

I've also added in some 'Wingsuit flying' found while trawling around which follows on from the last scene in the first video. I would do this:

h/t jeffreydj2 and Tw1stedSifter

 

The Flotilla Choir

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Saturday, 05 June 2010 08:30

From the excellent Mr Spark a somewhat different take on the 'Peace flotilla':

 

RAF Harrier Crash Landing Kandahar May '09: 'Balls of Steel'

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Friday, 04 June 2010 10:00

RAF pilot 'lands' badly, stays with it until it starts to get a little warm and then decides it's time to bail:

H/t Neptunus Lex and Dasvince

Update: An 'Aviator' writes in the YouTube comments:

"Harrier pilot/instructor from years ago. Looks like pilot is doing conventional landing with nozzles pointed almost full aft.

 

Question Time 3rd June

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Thursday, 03 June 2010 22:15

Question Time from Brecon: David Willets, Dianne Abbot, Leanne Wood, Matthew Parris and Kelvin MacKenzie

1st question: Was David Laws right to resign. Er, even if one accepts that it was to hide his 'gayness', it was still dishonest.

 
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