1. Boris Johnson prefers LBC to the BBC.2. Gary Younge doesn't think the Tea Party exists.
3. Alex Massie looks at George W Bush's new book.
4. Peter Hitchens wonders why Prince Andrew is getting so friendly with a dictator.
5. Norman Tebbit was once a Europhile.
6. Walaa Idris on Sally Bercow's neutrality.
7. Anna Racoon investigates the world of health and safety.
8. Tim Worstall takes a look at the figures on housing benefit.
9. Peter McColl believes that tax avoidance is a problem. I don't.
10. Dizzy is cracking down on those who break Godwin's Law.
11. James Forsyth thinks a delay in Oldham is exactly the Coalition wanted.
12. The Third Estate thinks those on both side of the Unions dispute need to tone down the rhetoric.
Re Godwin's Law, it's entirely rational that these mentions of Hitler should come up so often.
ReplyDeletePolitical discussion online seems remarkably prone to people making silly bloody generalisations and statements of breathtaking stupidity. How does one tackle a generalisation? You take it to an extreme and show how it doesn't work. What's the most extreme political example most of us can think of? Hitler.
Now, if only there were fewer stupid blusterers online, the rest of us wouldn't have to keep bringing up Adolf.
"Dizzy is cracking down on those who break Godwin's Law."
ReplyDeleteNazi.