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For any item, from a house to a toaster to a shoe to a car, I have a simple design red line – form must always follow function. This does not rule out elegance, but it does establish a hierarchy.  Nothing should be styled for style’s sake.   First, your device or item should beContinue reading “Do you donk?”

Another day, another unintelligent article by The Daily Telegraph. In this <article>, Camilla Tominey says that there was nothing “fair” about Gina Miller’s 2017 <Brexit case>. It was of course an entirely fair case, and a very necessary intervention – that is, if you care about the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.  Miller saved British parliamentaryContinue reading “Why Gina Miller’s Brexit case was necessary”

“If you look at the passing-out of the latest cohort of solicitors and barristers in Northern Ireland, the vast majority of them have been educated in what we would perceive to be Catholic grammar schools. It doesn’t necessarily follow they are nationalists, but obviously the vast bulk of nationalists are from the Catholic persuasion. It’sContinue reading “New Taig cull programme”

It’s hiding in plain sight. The link between xenophobia, racism and the anti-vaccer mentality. Novax Jokeovic, tennis player, and well-known anti-vaccer <hangs out with violent Serbian nationalists>. Remainers are <more likely to get a jab than leavers>. “The anti-vax movement has, in short, become a magnet for people engaged in anti-truth and anti-science politics, andContinue reading “Anti-vaccine freedom fighters”

Google search on “protocol”, 12 January 2022: The DUP is a party with no discernible economic pulse, although it does contain members who <refuse to believe in dinosaurs>. You can add your own quips folks. Note though that poor Jeff is no longer attempting to run with the fiction that the Brexit protocol is aContinue reading “A tale of 2 headlines:”

Obviously, the Brexit Protocol has no direct everyday or economic effect on GB.  Its only function in a GB context is as a handy flashpoint theoretical sovereignty issue which enables Ms. Truss to burnish her nationalist and anti-EU credentials for the purist Brexit peanut gallery.  However, it does have a direct everyday, economic effect onContinue reading “Truss to the rescue”

Liberal whites tend to suffer from inverted racism. They assume that all black and Asian people must be right-on (or “woke”, as the incurably derivative would put it nowadays), and even lapse into disappointment when they’re not. This is often a very naive and patronising white assumption. I remember being at dinner in a SriContinue reading “Britain’s AG has a point to prove”

In the run-up to the 2016 Brexit vote, the Brexiters, realising that they were losing the economic argument badly, played the racist card heavily. It worked. Elderly people in my village asked me about “when the Turks were coming“: I could fill 100 pages with such images – prior to the Brexit vote, the BritishContinue reading “The Great Brexit Immigration U-Turn: vote Brexit for more immigrants!”

The pint is back!  The nasty pint-banning EU has been defeated, and all is well in Brexit land!  See the predictable headlines: In 2013, an OECD Report found that, in Britain, literacy and numeracy was much higher in the 55-64 age group than it was in the 16-24 age group.  That may explain why soContinue reading ““A pint of lies, mate, whatever you’re having yourself””

It’s relatively easy to find serious artists, or frivolous ones. I appreciate art which holds both aspects in suspension, without becoming fully either.  That duality is very hard to find. Tom Waits has it, of course.  However, posibly the foremost exponent of rock music which combined silliness and depth in that way was Ohio’s finestContinue reading “The Cramps”