A strong statement perhaps... but still, I stand by it. Why? Because it's true.

it's a fundamental conceit of any democracy that it represents the people. Our democracy does not. The First Past the Post system favours parties with a loyal minority and means that the majority of votes tend to be wasted. A party can win a seat with as little as 30% of ( Read more... )

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It's very hard to tell at this stage. Things appear to be reaching - slowly - the necessary crisis point for governments and businesses around the world to actually respond to them though experience tells us that they won't until things get really, really bad. This time that may be too late, but I'm optimistic that macro-engineering, sheer ( Read more... )

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Hypocrisy is a problem but having read this some years ago now, I found it gelled some of my own thoughts, in that trying is more important than succeeding. I would, however, differentiate between failure to uphold one's own standards (heroic failure) and the kind of political hypocrisy and secrecy we see in the likes of Tory governance or ( Read more... )

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1. That viewpoints I once considered to be limited to Islamic extremists are held by a considerable number of relatively wealthy, educated and literate Muslims. It seems that Muslims of actual moderate position are the 'lunatic fringe'.

2. That Paedobear and Muhammed are a marriage made in heaven.
3. That Islamic Creationists are more fun than ( Read more... )

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