It gets me every time, that picture of lovely, tanned, smiling Milly Dowler in her buoyancy jacket, standing behind the wheel of a speed boat, beneath blue skies on some perfect family holiday. It’s the unabashed way she looks into the camera, knowing that life is good and that it’s only going to get better.
Month: November 2012
Allister Heath: Britain is becoming an increasingly anti-libertarian society
Sorry for another Allister Heath column everyone, but this one was just too good to miss and got everyone at Bogpaper Towers talking this morning! WELCOME to Britain, a land where rules, regulation and taxes are one of the few growth industries. In recent days, the government has decided that companies will no longer be
Janet Daley: We’re Heading For Economic Dictatorship
You can read the original article here. Forget about that dead parrot of a question – should we join the eurozone? The eurozone has officially joined us in a newly emerging international organisation: we are all now members of the Permanent No-growth Club. And the United States has just re-elected a president who seems determined to
Allister Heath: Britain is a country of extremes: We either love or we hate
A FEW years ago, Britain was ridiculously complacent, blind to everything that was going wrong in the economy, determined not to notice the irrational exuberance, the monetary pump-priming, the fiscal profligacy, the epidemic of stupid decisions and the deliberate malfeasance. We were a nation in the grip of an insane bubble yet anaesthetised by cheap
James Delingpole Friday Column: Surrender Monkey Central
Just what is it that makes Tim Montgomerie such a massively influential voice in modern British conservatism? Is it his ebullience, wit, openness, charisma and ready charm? Is it his razor intellect and adamantine principle? Is it his journalism’s famed lightness of touch, bold insight, and gripping readability? Well, all of these things and more,
Money can buy happiness
We thought the following post was an interesting read, although we can’t agree on whether the Brits are a greedy bunch or an easily pleased bunch… Read the original article here Money can’t buy you love but £83,000 is enough to keep Brits happy, according to a global survey. The nation is satisfied with just
Reader contribution: The US National Debt and Federal Budget Deficit Deconstructed
Once again, huge thanks to top Bogpaper Elf David Roberts who has contributed the following. Defintely worth your time. Whilst Anthony Robbins describes himself politically as an Independent rather than a Conservative or Libertarian, at Bogpaper Towers we think that he does a great job, in this video, of generating an understanding of the true
Delingpole Friday column: God, I feel so sorry for George Monbiot
And the headline isn’t sarcastic. I know lots of people out there are pissing themselves over his series of abject, grovelling apologies for having libelled Lord McAlpine on Twitter. But I’m not one of them. I genuinely sincerely feel poor George’s pain. Yes, all right, this might sound unduly magnanimous. Well, damn it, it is
Reader contribution: Bill Bonner on Capital Account
Here we have another great suggestion and offering from Bogpaper reader David Roberts. He sent us this a while ago and we apologise for not putting it up sooner. David writes: We’re fans of Bill Bonner’s here at Bogpaper Towers. Bill appeared on RT television’s Capital Account recently, to discuss whether the presidential election will
James Delingpole: Bollocks to Godwin’s Law
Another brilliant offering from James Delingpole for his Friday column. For those who are unsure of what Godwin’s Law actually is, Wikipedia tells us the law states, ‘As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.’ My least favourite law – and there are lots of contenders: the ones on drugs; the
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