Don't you think

given that all government policy appears to be about helping an apparently randomly selected group buzz word group -the modern deserving poor -be they single parent, hard working families hoodies, the young, the old... -and that parties self consciously distinguish themselves by each year choosing a certain selection - ti would be far fairer if at the stat of every year we had a national lottery, in which the buzz word groups were parcelled out -one could I guess even have a eurovision-style worthy poor contest each year to decide you was in the hat - well it would make more sense then the current hocus-focus...


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he does not just look like a prick

Now about this on for an endurance test.Blane or some other self serving idiot could hold their breath until David Cameron says something not meally mouthed and ambigous.
the Effort would certainly kill Blane, and with any luck it would show Cameron to be the prick he also sounds like.
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Peronalised inflation

It is of course an old joke. when is inflation not inflation - when it is a rise in house prices. That is not inflation but rather an increase in personal wealth (so good).
That is it is not inflation when very few are actually using the realizing the wealth, when they are merely gloating over it (an no matter if this gloat is enough to bugger up the rest...)


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History spits rather than reapeats

strange isn't it that the last few weeks saw three things. firstly the assumption that there would (given the price of fuel) be another fuel blockade.
Secondly that this very expectation meant the blockade when is duelly came was ineffective and unproductive. History does not repeat.
Except of course it does - as fuel shortages did duly come but not because prices were bankrupting hauliers but because they were making tanker drivers greedy!
History did then repeated but for another different reason.Or perhaps better it repeated only by splitting motives form effect. the same thing was attempted for the same reason (but failed) the same result was actually effected (but for quite the opposite reason).
History repeats but t never the same way - tragedy creates joke, and jokes spark other ways to weave the tragic...

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Farce

Poor old david Daves. he has discovered the had way the odd and highly hypocritical robustness of the british system. One can abolish habbeus corpus or restrict freedom, but woe betide the person who wants to similary abuse the system to show up this abuse. For to attack established practice in this way is to open oneself up to the the full horror of the system ignoring you. One will then be left with all the other nuts (and without even a foul exhibitionist such as Mackenzie to compete against). In that place of limbo that is reserved for those who run against the stream....

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Watched

okay - it is fairly obvious I will not like CCTV given the other blogs here. But the real problem is not that it invades privacy. As a matter of fact it does not,as most are switched off. The real problem is not that it creates a false sense of security (which it does), so much as it plays to a naff and naive access in British politics. i mean the axis that has at one end politicians who are desperate to do something (popular), and the people who are desperate to have some act of popularism (The hang the Czar lobby) enacted (and it harm none). The camera's therefore represent a comprises, something appauling popularist, something that appeals the the lynch mob -mentality is done, and done often and cheaply.
Technology is therefore used to placate the mob or at least allow them something more than they had been allowed. the worry is that is technology allows more and more things this Lynch mod bias will come to constantly distort what we doing with it (think DNA data base) and therefore where we spend money. the Mob agenda then seeps into the kind of technology we fund and therefore how and when are change our societies through that technology.
Now there really is a frightening thought!

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criss-crucified

The story of the losing discs is one of those stories about the fault line fast changing technolgies bring to the world. it is impossible to keep up. it is useless (and impossible) to homogenouify different systems. The result is that every feature of modern life is criss cross with technologies of different ages, and different purposes. it cold be no other way. As long as this is the case (and it will be as long a technology changes rapidily) then one will be faced with a simple choice. Use thetechnology to the maxim of its potential and risk cock up. or else police the entire system, worry about every detail, and restricting access at each and every point. One thereby mimises the chance of one kind of risk by restricting what is allowed across the entire system while also opening oneself up to all the abuses of power this restriction can cause.
Not much of a choice really.

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