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'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
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- Axel Leijonhufvud
- E.E.Evans-Pritchard
- Edmund Leach
- Francois Couperin
- Joan Robinson
- John Maynard Keynes
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Blog Archive
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2009
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January
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- Fragile and Failing Strategic States
- The Leadership We Need
- Selling the Powers and Influence of Our State
- Cast Out
- Pretty in Pink
- Would Brown Resign the Leadership After Defeat in ...
- The Deindustrialisation of the United Kingdom
- Parents and Pupils Like Grammar Schools
- New Labour Must Now Ask Us What We Want To Do In t...
- The Damage New Labour is Inflicting is Increased B...
- New Labour at Bay
- Leader's Lobes Revealed
- Sailing, We Are Sailing
- Global Warming
- Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
- Looking Lively With Russia's Black Sea Fleet
- Controlling Our Own Nuclear Weapons and Their Use
- Schools: a Waste of Their Time and Our Money
- Give Over
- The Limits of State Action
- Screw the Pile Lighthouse and Dwarf Eel-Grass. Ma...
- Not All Labour is Productive
- A General Election Immediately is the Only Democra...
- Protecting Globalisation
- Suffer the Children
- Known Unknowns
- Sterling at 1.13 to the Euro
- Shades of the Prison House
- Worst Falls in Three Decades on Regents Park House...
- Unfortunate Interruption of Russian Gas Flow Trans...
- Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
- We Are All Dead
- President-Elect Stays in a Hotel for a Change
- President of the Czech Republic and of the Europea...
- Fulfilling the Plan
- Destroying the Real World Under New Labour
- Liquidity Preference With Attitude
- Turn On the Gas and Get Rid of the President
- Penniless and Defenceless Under New Labour
- Travelling to the Lost World
- Trade Off!
- Riskiness
- Releasing the Power of the University's True Purpose
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January
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
7 comments:
You'll always have Tesco.
They have become like Skynet now.
If we try to shut them down they will turn on us.
I expect Aertex has gone too, she said gloomily.
It's Waitrose round our way. We keep each other updated on decent offers in the cooked meats section. Raedwald says they're security tagging the joints. They'll be selling brussels' sprouts in pairs next.
I am not the only person who comes over strange in supermarkets and has to be taken to the nearest sherry to recover from the special lighting in the vegetable section of Tesco. They have turned us already but we can resist if we do not enter.
But the huge influx of council employees will undoubtedly spend their money in the shops Hats, and change retail figures enormously.
The 'outreach rubbish selection watchers' will have several more pounds to spend on fripperies, plasma screens, crap sale items; while the pensioners who pay their wages and pensions suffer in one cold room at 60 degrees.
Bloody Gordon Brown has been the biggest disaster of a 'parliamentarian', that we have ever seen in this country.
I - and my colleagues - really loathe him and his awful crowd of incompetent, sponging wasters.
Welcome to nulab's emporium.
What shops, Scrobs? There aren't going to be any shops for most of us. Just a giant GUM (or NULab Emporium if you will) built along the Mall, handy for Buckingham palace. Only payment in gold accepted. Gold may be held only by licence from the regime.
Other outlets will be suppliers on ration coupon presentation.
I have taken a New Year resolution (and a bet on how long I can hold out) or would enhance the hatefest on who and what is responsible.
I recall a story doing the rounds back in the '80s that Raine McCorquodale nearly married the heir to the Coates Viyella fortune, but refused at the hurdle when she realised she didn't want to be Raine Coates. She made Gerald Legge unhappy for a while instead, before taking her turn at being Countess Spencer.
Jaeger is offering up to 70% off, so it can't be long before they turn their toes up, too. Some bargain Jaeger work suits going for the chaps.
Choosing Christian names involves unexpected hazards but excluding future husbands, otherwise suitable, was not one we took into account when naming the girls. It would be best if women keep their own names. I stand before papers wailing 'who am I?' in existential crisis whenever anything important needs a signature.
Wedgewood had been in trouble for years; Whittards, overpriced tat Tea, first to come off the shopping list; Woolies, lost their way; Vizzi ( or whatever ), Richard Branson is a clever man who offloaded Virgin Music when he noticed that I get all my DVDs from Amazon, remember Littlewoods abandoning the High St. a couple of years ago and reverting to mail order/internet shopping ?
Marks & Spencer are next but for trying to abandon their core shoppers who have not forgiven them. If middle age men were familiar with buying their pants online M&S would have gone already.
Starbucks, whose only customers seem to be foreign students, their coming demise will free up lots of High St space thus allowing competitors to Tesco a bit of room.
Bring it all on.
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