August 2011
8 posts
In praise of Louise Mensch
Hello! Here in Smolensk butcher shop, we plenty impress by quality of free entertainment UK political class provide during summer months. And now there is new star to add to excellent line up of Nadine Dorries, Eric Pickles, Simon Hughes and Hazel Blears. Yes, of course I am talking about Louise Mensch, MP.
And how I am laugh when write last two letters of previous sentence. For we know it all...
Putin Letter to Cameron on Riots. Pt. 3
Final Volga News extract
So you defined your enemy. Time for punishments. Not solutions. Punishments. Forms of weakening and containment. Best wars, those that create unity, are prosecute against groups that are scary, enduring, but ultimately weak. So many punishments proposed by your allies are perfect.
Removal of benefits, eviction of rioters from their sink estates – necessitating creation of...
Putin Letter to Cameron on Riots. Pt. 2
Putin’s letter continues >
So you got your stigmatisation. Gangs and single parents. Wonderful terms, resonant with fear of violence and benefit scrounging. Gangs and single parents. So garnering of headlines, so neutralising of thought. No one think hard about what gangs are when you use this language. Are they loose cluster of disaffected youth, which disintegrate when youth given...
Putin Letter to Cameron on Riots. Pt.1
Volga News published a secret letter from Vladimir Putin to David Cameron on riots. Serialised in three parts.
Dear David,
How your back? Sorry I judo throw you when you last visit Russia. It only my way of say hello to world leaders. Some like it, even Angela, though she less tolerant now Dmitri is President. Yes, I miss my job. Still, Dmitri keep Sarko happy in photo calls. And be Prime Minister...
STOP RIOTS. STOP STRANGELY SHAPED HEADS
I tweet much about how impressed I am by Cameron Witney speech on riots. Here summary of my thoughts.
Cameron employ new type of post-Enlightenment logic on riots. Examples. Most rioters are poor; some rioters come from one parent families: therefore single parents cause riots. Or: we must be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. And what causes crime? Criminality. Or best of all: riots...
David Starkey Call My Bluff
Some tweets on the sad death of Robert Robinson and less sad one of David Starkey
RR: And the next word is “Starkey”. So. Frank. FM: Imagine if you will, should be easy now, a pompous, primped up popinjay, a fool, whose faux confidence and relentless self-publicising gains him attention. A Starkey, or rather Star-KEY, is one of those. RR: Thank you Frank. Hannah Gordon, what do you say...
Let Markets Decide Our Fates
This post appeared on www.dailykos.com website in August 2011 and concerns global financial crisis.
Hello! Here in Smolensk butcher shop we plenty musing today on nature of “markets”. What are these things? Plenty powerful, that for sure, as now we see again how they bring global economy to knees and make government policy makers do much poo-crapping in pant.
Of course, some analysts is remind...
Great Republican Budget and Debt Ceiling Plan
Hello! Here in Smolensk butcher’s shop, we marvel at wisdom and foresight of Republican congressional leaders, especially Tea Party, and their approach to debt ceiling issue. They propose big Federal Budget cuts for balance of American books and save AAA (American Autothanasiacs Anonymous) credit rating. And at last Obama is concede.
Of course there plenty many leftist critic of...
