Tag Archives: UK

Scars Are Sexy

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Lee

According to research conducted in the UK, women find men with facial scars more physically attractive, if the scar appears to be the result of violence. Unfortunately it may be a brief affair for the scarred, as some theories suggest … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged attraction, facial scars, masculinity, men, personality types, relationships, research, scars, sex, UK, violence, women | Leave a comment

Government by Rich and Poor

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Lee

Sadly, Myrna Bushell, Bideford (UK) town councillor and stripper/phone sex business owner, is resigning her office due to a lack of respect from colleagues. But in parting she also cited the time constraints necessary for local councilpeople, concluding that you … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bideford, government, Myrna Bushell, phone sex, resignations, stripper, town council, UK, unemployed, United Kingdom, wealthy | 2 Comments

The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Lee

Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband’s knowledge of history. There’s something incredibly deranged about that government. They’ve taken the traditional … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Britain, David Miliband, diplomacy, foreign secretary, Georgia, History, invasion, Putinism, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, UK, United Kingdom, war | Leave a comment

Gordon Brown Endorses Obama?

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Lee

Boy, this is an unwise move. Perhaps my Tory colleagues are right and Gordon really is tempermentally unfit to govern. It’s an enormous risk and a pointless one, in that it cannot help Obama. British interference in American governance…well, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 1783, Barack Obama, British, Gordon Brown, Obama, Tory, Treaty of Paris, UK | Leave a comment

BNP Youth Cult

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Lee

The British National Party has started a cryptofascist youth camp. The Mirror seems a little overly concerned about the presence of rifles and pocket knives, when it’s the ideological education ought to be most objectionable.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged BNP, British National Party, cryptofascist, ideology, The, UK, youth | Leave a comment

London Nights

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lee

Knowing Soho well, this is probably a good indicator that the opposite is true.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged London, soho, UK | Leave a comment

Ban All Pointy Objects

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Lee

It might sound like a bad t-shirt from a gun show, but I’m afraid it’s entirely true: Pat Regan, a prominent British anti-gun rights campaigner, who worked for years to abolish the private ownership of firearms in Britain…has been stabbed … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Britain, bullets, campaign, Firearms, gun rights, knives, Pat Regan, stabbed, UK, Yorkshire | 1 Comment

The Left, McCain And The War

Posted on March 18, 2008 by MichaelW

The inestimable Oliver Kamm provides a glimpse at the value our British friends find in a potential John McCain presidency: Two points about McCain stand out. He’s not a conservative and he’s been right all along about Iraq. These are … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Notes on the war | Tagged America, Britain, Election 2008, GWOT, Iraq war, John McCain, political left, support, UK | 10 Comments

Against Sharia

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Lee

Ali Eteraz takes a lengthy, sober and sympathetic look at the various arguments for granting jurisdiction to Sharia courts over Muslims in UK law. He rejects them all to good effect.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Ali Etraz, courts, Law, Muslim, sharia, UK | Leave a comment

Pat Condell on Rowan Williams

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Lee

Patrick Condell goes on an epic rant about that “cloistered, bubble-headed fool of an Archbishop” for embracing Sharia law in the United Kingdom.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Archbishop, archbishop of canterbury, Church of England, Islam Sharia, Pat Condell, rant, Rowan Williams, UK, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

The Vanity of the State

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Lee

Andy Burnham, the UK’s Labour Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, was caught in thick mascara at Prime Minister’s Questions on Thursday (glamor shot here). It might seem a light affair, but the peril for the British public … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Andy Burnham, Breck Girl, British, cosmetics, glamor, Kelly LeBrock, Labour, Leigh, mascara, Media, pmq, UK, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Lee

Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, Alberta, Angola, Arctic, Beijing, Bonga, business, Cabinda, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chevron, cocoa, Cold War, Congo, Domestic Politics, Dutch disease, economy, energy, Environment, ethnic nationalism, Financial Times, FPSO, Gabon, Geneva, geostrategy, ghana, guerrilla warfare, Gulf of Guinea, Houston, IMF, interview, John Ghazvinian, Joseph Kia Mboungou, kidnapping, left, memo, mercantile, Middle East, neoconservative, Niger Delta, Nigeria, offshore, oil, oil sands, oilfield trash, peak oil, petroleum engineers, post-nationalism, prostitution, reinvestment, rentier, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, shale, Shell, subculture, Suez Canal, Transportation, Uganda, UK, United Nations, Washington, workers, World Bank, Zimbabwe | 9 Comments

Privatization Under Thatcher

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Lee

Short video clip on Maggie’s privatization efforts in the 1980s, and the intellectual rationale behind expanding the investor class. It’s not about creating prosperity, it’s about educating a nation in what makes prosperity possible.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 1980s, Britain, capitalism, Economics, Education, privatization, prosperity, Thatcher, UK | Leave a comment

The Scale of the American Economy

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Lee

Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Lee's Page | Tagged , American, business, chart, China, Economics, economy, GDP, Germany, GSP, image, map, regions, scale, states, strange maps, UK, United Kingdom, US, visualization | 7 Comments

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