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This – police raid tallbloke, is very nearly the last straw. Surely, this cannot be legal, search warrant or not. When did we become the 51st state? Regardless of the ever more sinister threat of the Torquemedia led Greenish Inquisition, the police must be convinced that a crime has been committed and have good...
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Were all the victims of Saturday nights’s carnage on the M5 fools? It was dark, there was mist, fog and smoke about. I rarely drive on motorways, at any time of the day or night, without wondering if I will make it to my destination. I am frequently in a minority of one, trying...
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Just a link: Matt Ridley Angus Millar lecture – must read. Click, read and disseminate before it is too late!
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Ofcom have been instructed by the coalition to protect the Universal Service by making 1st Class mail available only to the wealthy. See here for details. If you think this doesn’t matter in the electronic communication age, try to have your credit card emailed to you.
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Indur M. Goklany talks sense at Watts Up With That. The Ridiculous is the one word that perfectly sums-up the ‘Climate Change/Global Warming/AGW’ religion. Their group-think madness leeches an impenetrable fog; they truly are The Ridiculous. No matter how much real scientific (model free, error free, politics free) evidence comes their way, they will...
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The Campaign for Real Mail (CARMA) is the name I give to a geeky but fun way to fight junk mail. When you receive anything unsolicited through your letter box with a Business Reply Paid or Freepost address, send it. Always send the coupon before you save the planet and recycle it. This forces...
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Just a link, so as not to sully the quality of writing. Prodicus on the inevitable apocalypse soon – gird yer loins.
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Here is an amusing morality play – . It resonates with the thoroughly entertaining Four Rooms, currently airing on Channel 4. The number of numpties willing to embarrass themselves in public never ceases to hypnotise me. Ahh, the wonder of television.
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I have heard it said that email has less than 10 years before it is dead and buried alongside its ugly sister – snail mail. This man said so today at a Mastering Social Media seminar – must be right then. What a disparaging term, snail mail. Here at Ingrate Towers we consider ourselves...
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Enviro-police alert; big sister is watching you and she is everywhere:
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NEDS is flawed but Peter Mullan does play fair with the social history of the deprived dumping grounds of 70s Glasgow; all filmed with no need for elaborate sets in modern Glasgow and its environs, with no obvious sense of irony. The main flaw is the lack of religious context, which may be a...
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Apologies for incessant fiddling with site appearance. We have settled, finally, on our new theme -Magazine Premium by Bavotasan. Real posts soon, betcha can’t wait.
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David Cameron was quoted as saying that the Court of Appeal’s decision to overturn the High Court in the matter of Sharon Shoesmith’s dismissal, ‘had serious constitutional implications’. Didn’t our forebears fight a brutal civil war, behead a King and shut down parliament over that very issue. Charles I refused to be answerable to...
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I don’t care what mechanisms have been used to bring about the complete and utter degeneration of mental capacity amongst us ingrates. I don’t care if it is a conspiracy of marketing, lizard people, flouride in the water supply or games consoles. I don’t care if there are hidden messages in music, television or...
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I recently bought a nice new laptop portable desktop; big screen, 1.2TB hard drives, 64bit corei7, 16GB RAM etc… The idea is to able to easily lock it away and use it as a portable tool during free family and friend ‘consultations’ etc. What to do with it? Its job is to replace 3...
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A thorough academic analysis of the case for or against AV, written by the University of Reading’s Alan Renwick, can be found at the Political Studies Association website (PDF). Read it, especially if you think you know all the answers already. There is still time before Thursday.
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I will say this only once: At least show up on the 5th of May, however you are inclined to vote (on AV). Us ordinary ingrates have to claim back our country from the chattering and political classes and from the media. Before you vote, ask yourself these questions - Who is urging you...
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Here in Ingrateville I have been driving the locals off their scrumpy with incessant claims that greenies hate people. Here is some evidence -Delingpole on Packham. What I don’t understand is why they never suggest culling themselves? I would happily volunteer for the loathsome task of listening to their jobby-jabber as I injected the...
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Why don’t the masses care about the corruption, lies and deception that dominate every aspect of their lives? We complain enough! So, why don’t we act? Sometimes, when we do, we have the crap beaten out of us by state forces hell-bent on maintaining their power base. Sometimes, we have to read and listen...
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Last night the Ingrate clan were hypnotised by the charms of Jon Snow again, take 2. Anne the elephant, 60 years old, arthritic and psychologically damaged beyond repair, has been in the care of the of The Roberts Super Circus from a very young age. She has been tethered on a very short chain...
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Last night the Ingrate clan were hypnotised by the charms of Jon Snow again. We were captivated at one stage by the soulless clown from the Institute of Economic Affairs failing miserably to justify Arts Council cuts on the grounds that the tax payer should not have to pay if nobody else was willing...
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Amateur psychology has its place, I think. After all, the Freuds and Jungs of the world were amateurs in their day. Before I attempt to espouse a new Ingrate psychological belief (in as much as theories in this non-scientific field of study cannot be tested or researched reliably), let me be clear that I...
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Steve McIntyre exposes more of the scam over at Climate Audit. Will there be a criminal investigation? Will scientists finally feel the scales tipping? I doubt it but eventually, when order has been restored men like Steve M. will be justly rewarded.
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Ingrate starts campaign site. What’s that about?
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Budget, no comment on the tabloid headline guff and no sight of the nitty gritty yet but why bother? Whatever its content, its purpose will be to pacify the Tory paymasters because Georgie Porgie doesn’t want the boys to come out to play; they know how to hurt him. We can rest in pieces...
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Risk aversion is the guiding principle of the management and governance of most of UK plc these days. It is certainly the cause of at least 50% of my workload today (not on this blog, obviously). Our entire culture has become dependent on a regular fix of worry about what danger we, our children...
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