In light of all the fuel price moaners:
from better transport (who in turn got their figures from a DFT publication) - it turns out the people moaning about fuel tax may be looking in the wrong direction.
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A scary graph showing inflation adjusted house prices in the US - I’d love to see a similar graph for the UK.
via the Radar blog, I commented on the original graph, but didn’t realise at the time that it was inflation adjusted.
“If you have nothing to hide, would you mind an IRS audit every year?”
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Personally I blame taking this test on my brother :).
I can’t help feeling that this could be the most insane thing I read about all year.
Of course schools need playgrounds, schools should not be a form of imprisonment - it’s bad enough that most office workers don’t get enough exercise, without getting children into bad habits that early. It seems like a form of child abuse, not to mention a recipe for disaster.
According to the BBC:
Sir Ian Blair said: “While the response of the Metropolitan police and other forces will be extremely robust around youth violence when it is committed, we should also be thinking about how to stop children drifting into these gangs.
“One of the ideas I have asked to be explored is that where an older sibling is clearly involved in gang activity, the right way forward is that there should be a child protection approach for any younger sibling who is clearly at risk of moving into a lifestyle which is extremely dangerous to that child.”
which has become a Have Your Say item:
Should children in gangs be protected?
Britain’s most senior policeman has said children lured into gangs should be treated like victims of abuse. Do you agree?
Notice the subtle change? Suddenly he wants to protect the guilty rather than (as he stated) protect the innocent. And of course most of the posters instead of doing some checking and realising the basis for the discussion is nonsense start blaming the “liberals” - I’ve yet to meet one of these liberals who prefers criminals to their victims, but there must be a lot of them because they always get the blame along with their PC compatriates on Have Your Say. Doesn’t anyone read anymore?
“…I think it is very patronising to call a serious book about other peoples’ views of the universe and everything a delusion. I don’t think that is helpful and I think it portrays science in a bad light.”
“Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.”
The biggest problem I have with Dawkins is his self-delusion that religion is to blame for most of the ills of the world. Last time I checked it was scientists who develop most of the machinery of warfare, I’ve yet to go to a meeting at church and start work on plans to decimate any major cities, or maybe the Manhattan Project never happened?
