Friday, 5 September 2008
The Republican ticket that should have been?
What has become clear overnight in various reports and comments is that the dignified and quietly competent John McCain did not 'hit the ball out of the park' with his acceptance speech. The ability to deliver a speech is helpful in building empathy with your audience and creating an energy that can inspire people to accept your request...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
English democratic deficit widens
Despite all Gordon Brown's jingoistic flag waving and pledges to preserve and strengthen the Union, the government has revealed it will scrap the Ministerial posts of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish secretaries and replace them with a "Secretary of State for the Nations". Only one third of the attention currently given to each country will be...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
EU foray into controlling how we think
The Advertising Standards Authority has described plans by MEPs to force TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines that ban any adverts deemed to portray women as sex objects, or that reinforces gender stereotypes such as men doing DIY, as "inflexible and impractical". They could have also included interfering, intrusive, controlling, patronising...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
To Save UK Tax, Keep Breathing
Days away from flying out of the UK after my 'summer' holiday here, my mind is on business and sorting out my affairs here. I sold a bungalow for a good price last month and was waiting for a tax bill assessment on the capital gains. The advice came back - nothing to pay...
Posted on The Tap Blog
Climate change 'counter-consensus' growing
Sean Martin at The Spectator might be regretting the piece he published on the magazine's website yesterday afternoon. Given the 'consensus' in the media about global warming and climate change, Martin probably thought he was on safe ground when he asserted that climate change was responsible for opening the Northwest Passage...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
Thursday, 4 September 2008
MEPs and the EU can Blog Off
The six links below are essential reading for bloggers throughout the European Union. Have a read of them in turn. Bloggers visiting here from non-EU countries may be shocked and surprised to see the sheer depth of the EU's control freakery and the determination of its fanatics to crush any and all dissent to the EU project. But this is...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
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