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26.1.07

It's the way you tell 'em

(Via) This:
... seven in every 10 people think compulsory identity cards for all adults would be "a price worth paying" to reduce the threat of terrorism

Pah. At least 9 would consider them a price worth paying for world peace and as many Wonka bars as you can eat. And that figure rises to 10 if you throw in the missing Oxford United left-back from the Panini 1986 sticker album.

Who writes these questions?


posted by Jarndyce @ 09:45
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15.12.06

Political Graffito #7


Buy now pay later, Curry's.digital, The Strand, London WC2


posted by Jarndyce @ 11:57
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A short poem about cricket; in which, being a Scot, I have no interest at all

On north pole and south
huge Aussie air-jockeys ride
bareback, mocking you.


posted by Jarndyce @ 11:44
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24.11.06

So, who watches the people we pay to watch the watchers?

Something new from me at The Sharpener.


posted by Jarndyce @ 11:50
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Open up the nicks

The ultimate primer on the current state of Italian party politics here.


posted by Jarndyce @ 10:42
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23.11.06

Political Graffito #6


Islamic bnp, Allen Road, Stoke Newington


posted by Jarndyce @ 11:21
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21.11.06

Should we stay or should we go (from the EU)?

This Right-realist examination of why we should remain in the EU is missing a couple of lines of analysis. First, large chunks of EU "regulation" isn't of the red-tape variety; it's to ensure market access. Leave the EU, and all guarantees for British businesses are off. Second, it's worth noting the logical impossibility of being an EUsceptic and a Unionist. An honest one, at any rate. Should England decide to leave the EU, Scotland would quickly become an independent nation within it. It's the Union and the EU, or neither.


posted by Jarndyce @ 14:24
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20.11.06

A sextant among social sciences

Brad DeLong, in the comments (#12) to this piece, on the value of an economics education:
...neoclassical economics is a very useful set of disciplinary tools for somebody whose instincts and intuitions are on the left. They sharpen your arguments and clarify your thought. By contrast, I think that most people whose instincts and intuitions are on the right find their arguments dulled and muddied by too much exposure...

I'm tempted to explain it like this: economics, in every flavour, tells us what can be done. If you also think that's the sum total of what ought to be done, you're in trouble. Social science draws the map; if you forget your compass, you're still lost.


posted by Jarndyce @ 10:08
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17.11.06

Political Graffito #5


Israel helping to sustain the terrorist fret, Hartwell Street, Dalston


posted by Jarndyce @ 09:25
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