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Yeah, But I Remember Thatcher….

Iain Murray notes a Telegraph poll from yesterday. As it points out….
Contradicting the hoary old myth that young people are invariably radical, the above-average swing in the 18-34 age group is not in Labour’s favour but the Tories’.
Without wanting to put a dampener on Conservative Central Office’s new found optimism, there’s an obvious explanation for […]

Arse-Injected Death Syndrome

When I was much younger, me and my best friend Matt always joked that that was what AIDS stood for – in the same way that GAY was an acronym for Got Aids Yet? Personally, I thought we were pretty mature and disturbingly witty for two 13 year olds…..
Matt was my best friend, in a […]

Phishing For Post

I finally got my first phishing e-mail in German, purporting to be from the Postbank
Sehr geehrter Kunde,
Da es viele Betrugsfaelle mit den Konten von unseren Bankkunden zustande gekommen sind, bitten wir Sie, eine neue TAN-Kodesabsicherung zu benutzen, um die Sperrung von Ihrem Konto zu vermeiden.
Die TAN-Absicherung besteht darin:
Sie tasten zwei TAN-Nummern in die elektronische Form […]

The Queen Dissolves Parliament

…and it’s members in vats of acid, with any luck. And, after checking that I really am registered to vote in the Staffordshire Moorlands Constituency - which is, somewhat surprisingly, a relatively solid Labour seat. Now, remembering what it was like growing up there and reading the general description of the place “Rural area, […]

Girls

Women. As the cliché says - you can’t live with them and you can’t…. Well okay, you can live with them, but you’re never going to agree that the bathroom needs to be cleaned *that* often. You might also have difficulties compromising over how many people you’re allowed to sleep with if you’re in a […]