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Prodicus
Eastern England
Interests: Politics, music, life.
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Diff styles, possibly, yes, but I use all four of these platforms all the time so no clue there.
Prodicus is now following Tom
Jan 21, 2012
Neatly done, Mr Lilico, placing the crucial argument where it properly belongs - in the definition of personhood. Your 'when did you stop beating your wife' trap should (but may not) discomfort not a few philosophical cowards and ignoramuses. Then there are the unthinking drum-bangers and the cynical axe-grinders. Overall, I fear that you have entered a battle of wits with some unarmed opponents and in consequence may find the contest less than satisfying.
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e.g. Peston cutting his 'No 10 back door' Murdoch clip to omit 'but much more often with Brown & Blair', leaving just the Cameron part. Shameless. They just do not care a damn about balance or what the public think.
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The BBC is coming out of this very badly. Let's hope there are repercussions. Not holding breath, etc.
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Brown's a fantasist who knows a bandwagon when he sees one. (I am too well-brought-up to pollute this blog by calling him an incompetent, immoral, self-serving, whingeing, bitter, egomanical, shameless, lying ******* ****. I go elsewhere for that pleasure.)
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Mark Pritchard's piece at PolHome expresses my views better than I could. For Cameron to **** on Lansley now after encouraging him *for years* to become the best-informed MP on the NHS in order to take the problem by the throat would be appalling. To do it to please the increasingly appalling junior party in the coalition would be nothing short of shameful.
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So, all funded by taxpayers directly or indirectly but not, in every case, by the local council tax payers. So that's all right then.
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It is disheartening that so many commenters here would outlaw Swiftian irony if they could, failing so completely, as they do, to either recognise or understand it. I blame the education system.
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May I suggest some background reading? http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
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'Pre-budget Report'? Brownian slip. Abolished. Autumn Statement.
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What a miserable, po-faced lot (most of) you are. Can't see that you're in a truth-wood because you bumped your little shinny-shin-shins on a irony-tree stump. Tsk. Anyone would think you were French. Or American. (See what I did there?)
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In office, Mr Bercow might have neutralised himself (so to speak) politically and in due course night have mollified most Tories. But he hasn't (yet) - and of course his loose-cannon wife does him no favours for which one can only pity him, wondering wickedly about their private conversations... but let's get on. His gravest error, which he must surely now regret if he has any wit at all, was to disdain the regalia of his office which are there for a purpose: to show that the office is greater than the office-holder, as with court and judicial dress. Thus Mr Bercow made clear both his unedifying vanity and his intention to superimpose himself on the ancient office of Speaker. This was contemptuous, and probably fatal to his reputation and place in history, although I doubt he realised the enormity of his action at the time. The ridicule in which he is held by many may have caused the truth to begin to dawn... but probably not. Traditions survive ─ when they do ─ for a reason, but the apostate-Tory Mr Bercow pointedly dismissed the very suggestion. And so he no longer enjoys the protection afforded by traditions which he so airily waved away in favour of his own urges. He may wish he had the warmth of the regalia around his shoulder when ordure-bearing Arctic winds start to blow in earnest. His pathetic, petulant, shouted demands for 'respect' will prove bootless: he has personally abolished the means to acquire the very respect he craves. And so by his own hand he positions himself as the mere simulacrum of a Speaker, nothing more than an annoying lucky pole-vaulter beholden to the doomed, dishonest leaders of the most corrupt and incompetent governing party in the modern history of the House of Commons, at least half of whose Members despise him and wish him gone. He remains in the Speaker's Chair only because the House and the country have serious business to attend to and dealing with him as he deserves would be a distraction.
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I'm confused. (Shut up at the back.) 'Seventeenth century language' vs. 'his style seemed less dated'. Eh? Less dated than what? Dryden's verse?
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This is the most important article yet posted on ConHome. Thank you. And God rot the wreckers, from Heath to Brown via Major and Blair. Traitors, all.
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Then, Mr Docherty, let there be a statue to Mr Blair in Labour Party HQ, for the 'achievements' you describe are wholly party political, not national. Now, about Mr Blair's 'achievements' benefiting the United Kingdom and thereby warranting the tributes of the entire nation. You go first. Begin with his choice of Chancellor and go in from there.
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May I suggest placement of your explosives somewhere under the box office manager's lair? He or she runs the least efficient, rudest, most rapacious and customer-unfriendly booking system in London. Their credit voucher system for returns is shameful and quite unnecessary. Visitors to London who may not have the opportunity to come to another performance within six months of returning a ticket have to lose their money. In my case this week, £130-ish for two Bartoli tickets. A nice little earner for the Barbican, eh? A business with any ethical sense (let us discount leftie whining about 'Access to The Arts') would **REFUND MY MONEY**, Sir Nicholas.
OT Is it just me or is there a delay of several minutes before one's comment appears?
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Green was acceptable while Gordon was PM. He only became a complete bastard when the ******** Tories got in. Now get out of my way. Don't you know who I am?
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