Flash Looting

Posted on Wed 10 August 2011 in general • Tagged with looting, politics, riots

As the sun rises on a new day and businesses across the country count the cost of the nights violence we awake to a new phenomena. The technology and social networking that brought us the Flash Mob have now brought us the Flash Loot.

When you start hearing some of …


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Move along, nothing to see here.

Posted on Tue 12 July 2011 in general • Tagged with murdoch, news, politics, press

It's been a while since I've last posted. I make a conscious effort not to post general household news in favour of things that stimulate debate and comments. I hope that my writings end up being interesting to someone even if it is only me reviewing these posts in the …


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Pensions

Posted on Thu 30 June 2011 in general • Tagged with pensions, politics, strikes

A number of public sector unions are striking today over changes to their pension arrangements. As a result Fliss has gone into London today rather than working from home, hopefully balanced out by a slightly less insane commute. Before she left for her train we listened to Mark Serwotka debating …


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Self-indulgence

Posted on Wed 04 May 2011 in general • Tagged with av, politics, referendum, voting

I was thinking of twining about how hard my life was especially as I haven't been able to get my CoD on for the last two weeks due to the extended PSN outage. However I was reminded this morning that it's voting day tomorrow and given the current polling is …


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That would be a psephological matter

Posted on Wed 13 April 2011 in general • Tagged with av, may5th, politics, voting

One of the most annoying aspects of our current electoral system is the issue of tactical voting. This is where voters feel compelled to vote for someone over their preferred candidate as otherwise someone they really don't want might sneak in thanks to the split vote. It's something that's sadly …


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