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“Happy Birthday, Boris!” hails this week’s Spectator. It has been a remarkable first year as Mayor of London including everything from ping pong to knife crime, transport to education and hard work to fun as the Spectator’s Mary Wakefield found out.
Mary writes: “I met Boris Johnson in his office in City Hall overlooking the Thames [...]
With record levels of debt, this Government returns to raising taxes echoing the: “….Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” (Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, Act II, Scene VII)
When you have to watch someone die, one of the [...]
Taxandspendy – with apologies to Lewis Carroll
Twas Budget, and the slimy toad,
Did send poor Darling out again,
From whimsy were the numbers grow’d,
That came from Number Ten.
“And use the Taxandspend, old son,
The debts that bite, the laws that catch,
Entreat the hidden tax, don’t shun,
The slightest attempt to snatch!”
He took his big red box in hand,
Longtime to [...]
The affluent bourgeoisie use either fee-paying schools or private tutors to entrench their advantages, while kicking away the ladder of opportunity for bright kids from working-class backgrounds.
The lesson from the story of Georgia Gould is that if you restrict the opportunities of the many, the few will simply lengthen their lead.
Come on comrades, stop [...]
Hit the Road, Jacq!
A YouTube and song parody marvel to set you off for the weekend with a smile …
http://dungeekin.blogspot.com/2009/04/hit-road-jacq.html
With kind permission of Dungeekin
It is a glorious morning. The daffodils are still pretty perky. The tulips are surging away. The birds are a-wooing and a-cooing all over the place, and it seems absolutely criminal on a morning like this – an April morning, when there is frankly nowhere in the universe more lovely than England – that I [...]
I bound naked from the bed, brandishing the biography of Marcus Aurelius
You can’t just squash a creature that was once beloved of Apollo and which mankind has associated, since the beginning, with poetry and rhetoric and the gift of speech itself … you cannot kill a bee
The economic recovery is like the bee population
Long before the [...]
Boris at G20 Buckingham Palace Reception last night
http://twitpic.com/2pp94
