by nabidana | Oct 23, 2020 | Leader, stupidity
The decision by the First Minister for Wales Mark Drakeford, that only ‘essential’ items should be sold in Wales during its current COVID lockdown is the single most stupidly anti-freedom decision taken by an empowered politician in recent memory. Like all...
by nabidana | Feb 5, 2016 | stupidity, WikiLeaks
Geoffrey Robertson today stated on television that the ruling on Julian Assange’s ‘detention’ was arrived at by five ‘distinguished judges’. In fact, the WGAD website indicates that none of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is a...
by nabidana | Apr 2, 2013 | Labour Leadership, politics, stupidity
The UK is beset by an enemy within. The enemy is not the unemployed, it’s certainly not people with disabilities, the sick or immigrants. Nor is the enemy the businesses, large and small, which want to employ people and pay their fair contribution to taxes and...
by nabidana | Jun 7, 2011 | politics, stupidity
The Labour Party’s Ed Balls has been arguing consistently since before the last election that the Conservative plan to cut the UK public sector deficit is wrong-headed and likely to lead to economic disaster. When he peddles his intellectually vacant argument...
by nabidana | Apr 26, 2011 | Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
There will be no high court injunction. There is a principle in general existence: never ask a question unless you know the answer. The legal team I trust in matters of this sort believe that, although there is a constitutional and interpretational case to be made to...
by nabidana | Apr 22, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
Recently, Trinity College Dublin Seanad Office took the interesting step of eliminating a candidate from the election for Seanad on the basis that the candidate discovered she was not a citizen of Ireland. That’s not in itself problematic. Ballot papers had...
