Pedantry on Cameron
on Nov 6, 2009 in Tories EU Call Me Dave wild speculation [This is a guest post by the excellent and sorely missed Pedant General.]Patently Rubbish argues, largely correctly IMVHO, that Cameron's withdrawal from his cast-iron guarantee is essentially reasonable now that the EU Constitution Lisbon is a done...

Imagine a future without the European Union...
on Nov 5, 2009NB I am not the Devil (but I am offering you a free book).Part of the problem for eurosceptics has been that we have too often only engaged in one half of the argument. To be fair, we've all made a pretty good case that the EU is a costly, harmful, a...

A Tory EU-turn?
on Nov 4, 2009 in Tories EU Call Me Dave wild speculation To be honest, one of the best posts on David Cameron's breaking of his "cast-iron guarantee" comes from Stuart Sharpe.So now, with the Lisbon Treaty ratified, David Cameron has ended up a little stuck in the mud. Realistically, he has only two option...

Quote of the Day...
on Nov 4, 2009 in thieving bastards total and utter bastards Tories musings endemic corruption what the fuck? Thieving fuckwit. Sans thieving wife.... comes from troughing cunt, Nicholas Winterton MP. [Emphasis mine.]Sir Nicholas Winterton, the Tory MP for Macclesfield, said that “the way MPs are being treated is quite despicable”.He added: “Mr Kelly i...

MPs should be paid less
on Nov 4, 2009 in general hilarity MSM whoops mp salaries good deeds blogging media In an article about Professor Nutt (about which I shall write in due course), Dan Hannan says the following... [Emphasis mine.]He’s plainly right, this Nutt, when he says that the government’s attitude to cannabis is counter-productive, ill-infor...

Dan Hannan resigns his front bench post
on Nov 4, 2009 in Tories EU libertarianism good deeds politics As Keep Right Online notes, Dan Hannan MEP has resigned his front bench job.It seems that as of this evening, Mr. Daniel Hannan, a true Conservative and libertarian (if he wasn’t so famed, I’d be lobbying him harder for regular guest posts) has s...

How PMQs works
on Nov 3, 2009 in general hilarity musings blogging Your humble Devil must admit to wondering how, precisely, the questions are chosen at PMQs—especially since so many seem not to be, in fact, questions but assorted back-benchers toadying to the government.Luckily, Kerry McCarthy has explained it al...

Telling porkies
on Nov 3, 2009 in obesity wild speculation (nb. I am not the Devil's Kitchen)Three years ago, the government predicted that: One million children will be obese by 2010 if no action is takenWe were assured by the BBC that:The government says it is the "most accurate estimate so far" of futur...

The Devil rides out once more
on Nov 2, 2009 in think-tanks mischief-making general hilarity DK on the loose Just as a quick reminder, your humble Devil will be at the Adam Smith Institute—23 Great Smith Street, Westminster—tomorrow night, from about 6.30pm. In a talk entitled New From Old: A Friendly Society, I shall be addressing the need for a Libert...

Farewell freedom—it was nice knowing you
on Nov 1, 2009 in thieving bastards total and utter bastards Who is John Galt? totalitarianism law and order freedom (the on-going death of...) what the fuck? just not fucking funny Those of us who like to extol the virtues of freedom and who are, simultaneously, political anoraks, have been dismayed—to put it mildly—at the wholesale destruction of our ancient freedoms. And things have only got worse...Some months ago, whils...