An Englishman's CastleThe jaundiced views of a free born Englishman from behind the barbed wire of a Wiltshire farm - blasting the Bogusmongers and other assorted pondlife.Making Spying Pay- August 18, 2008 'Spy-in-the-sky' paves way for road pricing - Telegraph The Telegraph can disclose that the Government is pushing ahead with plans for a national road-pricing scheme, including testing "spy in the sky" technology. Gordon Brown was thought to be against national...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006289.html Well they do get a lot of criminals in there....- August 18, 2008 Police would raise the roof over station thefts - if it hadnt already been stolen - Times Online Its the last place you would expect thieves to strike. But handcuffs and hedge trimmers, blood samples and packed lunches have all...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006288.html Breaking the rules- August 18, 2008 We must train people to break the rules Libby Purves - Times Online Petty bureaucrats are a necessary evil. But we must instruct them in when to use their initiative and make exceptions ...a quotation from Marcus Tullius Cicero:...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006287.html Hmm - an anti-GM speaks- August 17, 2008 An Englishman's Castle: Genetic Advice from an Inbred Comment; or we could try remembering Monsanto's wonderfully patented seeds, genetically modified not to reproduce fertile seeds so that any farmer using them always had to go back to monsanto to buy...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006286.html Bob Piper gets it about socialism and starvation- August 17, 2008 On Worstall's blog Bob Piper comments "under free market economics there were never hundreds of millions who died of starvation, disease and malnutrition, I suppose." Yup - I think old Bob has got it, I can't think of any mass...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006285.html |