Tom Jones & Joe Cocker | “Delta Lady’ [This is Tom Jones, 1970]
07 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in Music, television
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act did not cause the Brexit impasse
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
Next week MPs debate the government’s bill to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. One argument frequently deployed for scrapping the Act is that it generated gridlock over Brexit. But, Meg Russell argues, no clear counterfactual to support this claim has ever been presented. In fact, when considering the possible scenarios, it seems likely that the situation would have been made worse, not better, had the Prime Minister retained an untrammelled prerogative power to dissolve parliament in 2017–19.
Next week MPs debate the remaining stages of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, which seeks to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (FTPA). It proposes to reinstate the pre-FTPA position, whereby the Prime Minister would effectively control general election timing using prerogative power. A key argument deployed by those seeking repeal of the FTPA is that it helped to cause the Brexit deadlock of 2019: that the FTPA, as…
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PETER TATCHELL
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
First of all kudos to GB News for tackling the issue of Gender Identity Ideology and having a, desperately needed, public debate. In this programme the perspectives of a Trans-Identified male, a women’s rights campaigner (Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshall A.K.A Posey Parker), Beverley Jackson (LGB Alliance), Gary Powell (gay man) and Peter Tatchell (Human Rights campaigner) were interviewed. The U.K Charity, Stonewall, were invited to participate but, to no great surprise, declined to participate.
Today I want to unpack the contribution of Peter Tatchell. You can watch his contribution below.
Peter Tatchell : Gender Debate
Transcript here:
Peter Tatchell is a, self-styled, Human Rights campaigner, best known for his Gay Rights Activism. His arrest, in Russia, to protest draconian, anti-gay legislation and his attempted citizen’s arrest, of Robert Mugabe, have garnered praise and headlines across the world. Latterly, for many women, he is better known for weighing in…
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Taxi Driver
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
Taxi Driver (1976) Director: Martin Scorsese
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Well, then who the hell else are you talking – You talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here.“
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In a depraved, morally ambiguous, post-Vietnam War New York City we are introduced to Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a veteran suffering from PTSD. He is isolated, lonely, empty, likely racist, and an insomniac -he visits porn shops and takes a job driving a taxi. We see him perhaps akin to a Holden Caulfield-esque character. Everywhere he goes in a busy world of urban decay he is surrounded by people but fundamentally he is alone. An odd mix of passengers ride in his taxi, including Director Martin Scorsese himself, who plays a vengeful husband planning to kill his wife. Travis also meets a charismatic politician named Senator Palantine, and…
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Uniform of the American G.I. on D-Day
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War II
Ten Minute English and British History #14 – Richard II, The Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: British history
Hayek on calculation
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, fisheries economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm
What did the Stasi do?
06 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: East Germany
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