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Today I have been debating with my alter ego, Subject: Should I exercise my democratic duty and vote in the “Police and Crime Commissioner” election. Well no!
Simply put North Yorkshire is a considerable area, one of the largest geographical constituencies in the country, but our options regarding the candidates for the aforesaid commissioner, are two middle aged ladies, each affiliated to the party machines, Conservative and Labour.… Read the full article
Here is a very dark view of the tunnel on Parlington Lane, built between circa 1812-14. This artistic view at the east end, represents my dark mood when I heard of yet more scandal at the BBC. [Click on the picture for a larger version]
It really is time to let the forces of commercialism act upon the funding for the out of control leviathan.… Read the full article
This site uses cookies via Google Analytics for the purpose of recording traffic, I don’t know anything about the user other than simple facts like Browser type, Operating System, screen resolution etc. As it stands, tracking the visitors is simply a measure of the volume of readers, which can be analysed in a variety of ways, harmless!… Read the full article
Yorkshire has a mixture of good and bad when it comes to the landscape, those areas which were once the backbone of the Industrial Revolution, have largely disappeared, leaving behind a post industrial wasteland. Sheffield and Rotherham for example were heavily polluted by the steel making, but rather than refining our techniques and cleaning them up so we could demonstrate to the World we could make the heavy stuff and still have a decent environment we exported much of our expertise to the less developed part of the World.… Read the full article
I read this the other day.
… Read the full articleThe economy is a tool. It is a tool for all of us who participate in it to improve our provision with material things by mixing our labour with that of countless other people in an extensive division-of-labour economy and with the accumulated capital stock in that economy.
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It seems that it is time to celebrate, whether or not the Huhne person is found guilty of perverting the course of justice or not. He is a dead parrot as far as his ministry of climate change is concerned. The question remains though, will his departure herald a new awareness of practical and sensible policies in respect of the energy crisis, he and his ilk have created.… Read the full article
I have avoided making any comments on this blog about the EU or European Union to give IT the full title, but really we ALL have to get involved, to bring change, or future generations to come will be severely blighted. I could easily add here the words “Soviet Socialist” to prefix the European Union, because that is what it is increasingly becoming.… Read the full article
Given all the talk of the riots, and I have to say numerous mentions of the earlier unrest, termed the Gordon Riots of 1780, it seems only fitting to mention Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge, set as it was during that riotous period. So here is a picture by BOZ from the Philadelphia Edition.… Read the full article
Lincoln Inn Fields, London, June 3rd 1780 – Least my dear friends at Peel should be under any apprehension for us, on account of this mob, I will write to day to tell you we neither suffered fright nor danger by it, though they were very noisy all night, and there still is a continual crowd about the Sardinian Ambassador’s.… Read the full article
Here is a quote from George Orwell, seems he was a real sage. On listening to mr edwin millipead air his views on the debacle caused by the journalists at the News of the World, I just had to make this point. Good bye millipead you are such a failure, do you think we have no collective memory, of your recent time in the labour government.… Read the full article
