Next Thursday (those with postal ballots should have already received them) a referendum will be held on changing the voting system to the Alternative Vote system.

Here are the arguments For (as PDF file) and Against.

More arguments on both sides hereWhat did I decide ( Read more... )

With the Government taking away more and more of our Rights and Freedoms, I'm seriously thinking of emigrating. If you have any doubts then I suggest you read this article by Henry Porter. In short I'm not sure how long Britain is going to remain a democracy ( Read more... )

You know those on-line personality tests that you find? Well, the writer of a blog I read does lots of them and I decided to try a few last night:

First a serious one:

Your result for The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test...
The Everyday German

Achtung! You are 46% brainwashworthy, 23% antitolerant, and 33% blindly patriotic

Had you lived in Germany ( Read more... )

Yes, I am shocked at what I've heard in a couple of my podcasts this week about the Canadian health system ( Read more... )