NOTES:
Professor Christie Davies at The Social Affairs Unit blog has an excellent article, which argues that:
the pressure to prosecute the customers of prostitutes is yet another stupid suggestion - yet the ideological thinking on which it is based has been central to many other policies
The rather good and always interesting Burning Our Money on the great failure of international aid.
A Very British Dude with some interesting comments on the David Davis thing and all that surrounds it.
COMMENTS:
Polly in The Grauniad says: ‘Labour in the 60s and 70s is best celebrated now as a liberal champion of freedoms and equalities.’
My comment:
Nope, Labour of the 60s & 70s will be remembered for demonstrating that bureaucratic central control of the economy was a complete and utter failure.
The New Laborg collective will be remembered for demonstrating that bureaucratic central control of society was a complete and utter failure.
Terrence Blacker in The Indy on those spurious PR surveys, ‘academic theories’ and so forth that get in the way of the real news.
My comment:
Ah, yes and how do we - the great unwashed - come to learn of these shallowly-disguised blurbs for books, spurious bits of PR dressed up as research and all the other attention-seeking bits of flummery?
From the media, of course, ever-desperate for something to fill the ever-expanding bits between the real news will grab at anything a lazy journalist can fill the space with, rather than going out looking for the real news. And from columnists eager to find anything they can spin out into the necessary few thousand words that will give them their column for the day.
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