Once Again I’m Proven Right About Humanity’s Frothing Lunatics

A million pointless candles

A useless cash-in on the craze for mawkish sentimentality and denial.

We’re shafted several times over by our first-past-the-post electoral system. Let me count the ways: it’s unrepresentative, it occludes choice, it wastes a majority of votes, it under-represents women (with interesting second-order effects on corruption). It gave us Tony bloody Blair.

And according to this recent study from the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, it also hands us uglier politicians. Read More

Why I Disdain Scottish Nationalism
Wot no imperialism?

The Philosopher’s Carnival 37

The Man Who Ruined Britain
Not Graham Norton, apparently

Jihad in Windsor?
Or not, as the case may be

What if a Muslim in a forest complained about a New York retail outlet he’d never visited? Would he make a sound? If MEMRI weren’t around, he wouldn’t

Applied maths case study

Who says probability theory has no bearing on real life?

Lebanon: the war after the war
Propaganda and the peace