Posts by Paul Litterick
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It beggars belief that this government is not coordinating a serious response to environmental issues with whatever it might be thinking about the economic crisis. Instead it is working on irrational projects like gutting the Ministry for the Environment, and increasing natural gas exploitation at a time when overseas the headlines warn of impending environmental disaster.
The Government does many things, but beggaring belief is not among them. All this was predictable. What matters is presentation, not substance. The Government has more important concerns than impending environmental disaster, matters such as knighthoods. Of course, it is aware that it must be seen to be doing things, such as cracking down on the nation's imaginary crimewave and undoing every piece of legislation enacted by the previous Government. But dealing with a real issue like the environment, even if the Government accepted it as real, would be perilous, since it might result in bad press.
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Whatever happened to the Opposition?
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At prep school in England, I learned that New Zealand was more British than the British: New Zealand served as a reassurance that Britain was alright.
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When will these children get their revenge?
They can write their own books about their childhoods, can't they? I don't know, kids of today, no gumption.
Perhaps Jake could write a column called Living with writers for one of the quality tabloids.
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I think she is on trial for exploiting her son for profit.
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Am I the only one who read it and thought...
"Its only bloody pot"You might think that but... it's not just pot, it's <dramatic chords>SKUNK</dramatic chords>, the extra potent man-eating strain of pot, which drives even merchant bankers crazy.
It was the subject of a media beat-up in Britain this time last year. Reefer madness.
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I tired of having to explain my Atheism in terms of strong/weak, positive/negative, strange/charm or whatever. I just do not believe supernatural things; they do not make sense. It irritates me when religious people (or non-religious people, for that matter) insist I have some sort of belief system, when all I have is an absence of belief.
Rant over.
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He knows stuff all about Art Nouveau.
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There is boundless pleasure in not knowing about some social phenomenon. I too know nothing of Watchmen, other than it is a comic book which is has been made into a film. I know also that people who like this sort of thing take it very seriously. So I shall revel in my ignorance.
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Jake, is the camera still in one piece?