Jerub-Baal's Spleen Vent

Gawd bless my lil Sis; convinced her to get me a subscription to Reason magazine for my birthday and she pulls through (a little over 6 mon...

That, or we start handing these out at chemists. I once went to University and studied chemistry which I enjoyed, but quite frankly, was rub...

From my post yesterday morning I see some more folk have enforced my very low opinion of humanity ; my growing misanthropy is being fed dai...

Count Yourself Lucky It Was So Warm, Ye Gods. Anyone else listen to Radio 4's Material World last night? Apparently last winter was a c...

On my way home last week from work listening to Radio 4 O was caught up in the insanity that was the outcry to this story and was able to h...

"So Mr. Osbourne do you expect me to meow?" "No; I expect you to DIE! Imagine you run a big department in a major business; t...

“25 percent taxation is about the limit of what is easily borne.” - John Maynard Keynes found here Currently? 47% if GDP. QED.

Herr Cameron was on damage control today after the special pleading got a little more clamourous with Labor becoming the defender of the ri...

Despite not being a higher tax rate payer (not having 2 euros to rub together an' all') and not even coming close to it with my wif...

The BBC reports (with the usual if somewhat tepid bias) that the US Senate has had it's "Net Neutrality" bill killed off. The...

Mark Serwotka writes today that their is an "alternative" to public spending cuts; predictably his answer boils down to "not...

Andrew Gwynne engages in a bit of misdirected "free market" bashing this morning: ‘There is no money’ – this is the message blast...