tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post115798813442435089..comments2023-11-05T08:01:10.010+00:00Comments on Think of England: The Age of WearinessBrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158143340786419962006-09-13T11:29:00.000+01:002006-09-13T11:29:00.000+01:00Yes, I think Brad's scam is brilliant. Equivalent ...Yes, I think Brad's scam is brilliant. Equivalent to:<BR/><BR/>'I refuse to pay for the meal I've just eaten until everyone in this world can also comfortably afford foie gras and caviar blinis, steak diane, three bottles of Verve Cliquot champange and a decent cognac to finish!"Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158138178844353842006-09-13T10:02:00.000+01:002006-09-13T10:02:00.000+01:00"I believe_____is worth fighting and dying for."Th...<I>"I believe_____is worth fighting and dying for."</I><BR/><BR/>The obvious answer is βto preserve our way of life.β<BR/><BR/>The Islamicist might be able to reel off more uniform, boilerplate details in answer, but they would be a string of insane, meaningless details. Worse, his refrain actually is: βI believe ________ is worth randomly killing civilians for.β<BR/><BR/>Worse, it really boils Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158133722105303182006-09-13T08:48:00.000+01:002006-09-13T08:48:00.000+01:00We cannot fill in the blank in the following sente...<I>We cannot fill in the blank in the following sentence: "I believe_____is worth fighting and dying for..."</I><BR/><BR/>That doesn't describe anyone that <I><B>I</I></B> know, personally, although I'm aware that "better Red than dead" people exist - somewhere...<BR/>Apparently in Northern California, Upper Left Washington, and New England...Oroboroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710250012500728430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158069451144345422006-09-12T14:57:00.000+01:002006-09-12T14:57:00.000+01:00Peter:Well done. With my alternating screamed catc...Peter:<BR/><BR/>Well done. With my alternating screamed catchphrases of "Pelion on Ossa!" and "No goats!", it's small wonder I'm so popular down at the Daycare Centre.<BR/><BR/>As to why we are so tired of the WOT already, I can think of several contributory reasons:<BR/><BR/>1) Our shortened attention spans<BR/>2) The fact that it has been so bitterly divisive in our own countries<BR/>3) The 'Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158068636561069292006-09-12T14:43:00.000+01:002006-09-12T14:43:00.000+01:00martpol:(So well that I'll forego pulling apart yo...martpol:<BR/><BR/><I>(So well that I'll forego pulling apart your continued labelling of all Iraq war opponents as dunces.)</I><BR/><BR/>So long as the Iraqi war opponents are incapable of providing anything like a reasoned alternative to the cul-de-sac of the pre-war sanctions regime, taking into account the various factors at play, then they <I>are</I> dunces. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Brit:<BR/><BR/>I Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158064164611599612006-09-12T13:29:00.000+01:002006-09-12T13:29:00.000+01:00Pull it apart? You mean this?...So varied and illo...Pull it apart? You mean this?...<BR/><BR/><I>So varied and illogical and self-contradictory were the complaints, so moronic the oil conspiracies and the Saddam-apologising and the BusHitler rhetoric, the irrelevant stacked endlessly on top of the nonsensical like Pelion on Ossa, that the great Leftist coalition could only appal the rational.</I><BR/><BR/>By God, I'm inordinately pleased with thatBrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158056976376939242006-09-12T11:29:00.000+01:002006-09-12T11:29:00.000+01:00Great post - I think you've summed up Blair very w...Great post - I think you've summed up Blair very well. (So well that I'll forego pulling apart your continued labelling of all Iraq war opponents as dunces.)<BR/><BR/>It's an exciting time in British politics for the first time since about 2000, when the New Labour golden age of minimum wages, devolution and democratic reform was drawing to a close. I'm even warming to David Cameron who, martpolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08508497057736355841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158052909611987412006-09-12T10:21:00.000+01:002006-09-12T10:21:00.000+01:00Thanks.I wouldn't advocate a fixed term - you'd ha...Thanks.<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't advocate a fixed term - you'd have to introduce fixed general elections at the same time, and once you start writing these things down it's Pandora's Box.<BR/><BR/>The current system works just fine. <BR/><BR/>After all, life wasn't really any different pre-Blair, other than that Labour was unelectable. People just got tired of Major, and <I>very</I> tired of the Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1158011950702100352006-09-11T22:59:00.000+01:002006-09-11T22:59:00.000+01:00An excellent commentary on the current mood. A fix...An excellent commentary on the current mood. <BR/><BR/>A fixed term for our president - oops, prime minister! -might revitalise English politics. Blair should have gone while he still had popular support and people could still remember how awful life was before he came to office.monixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631194815411019266noreply@blogger.com