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a practical example

yorksranter wrote 2 months ago: While I’m on the subject of Diego Gambetta, without formally reviewing his book, Codes of the … more →

Tags: Politics, Theory, Networks

No Future in the Cath Kidston Favela1 comment

yorksranter wrote 2 months ago: I have some problems with “10:10″, the latest timebound big media campaign. The first on … more →

Tags: Socialism, Surveillance, Protest, Energy, Wind power, sustainable, Russia, snark, my own ignorance

most of the people watching this are in fact my sworn enemies

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: This is right, as is this. But what’s this? I essentially joined the Liberal Democrats back in … more →

Tags: Politics, Tories, LibDems

Tory of the Week: Dan Hannan

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: So what is wrong with Daniel Hannan? To understand this Tory of the Week, it’s worth looking b … more →

Tags: Tories, NHS

Andy Coulson and the Law3 comments

yorksranter wrote 4 months ago: Much fuss about the yellow press listening to voicemail through knowing the default passwords. I … more →

Tags: GSM, intelligence and stupidity, press, Surveillance

Loonies 2.01 comment

yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: What is the legacy of the so-called “loony left”? The conventional wisdom is clear; it w … more →

Tags: Privatisation, Socialism, Politics, Academies, LibDems, London, libertarian, Cameron, Blair

Money

yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: Jamie Kenny watches the Lebanese elections and asks if the Saudis could spend so much money on Briti … more →

Tags: corruption, Politics, Tories, Saudi Arabia

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS2 comments

lyncorona wrote 5 months ago: “God breaks no barriers; neither did He make them. When you release them they are gone. God wi … more →

Tags: A Course in Miracles, The Dream, Denial, Truth, Forgiveness

Bob's yer uncle, and Tess is your aunt.. 1 comment

yorksranter wrote 5 months ago: Well, Blears and Smith were good, but Geoff Hoon walking the plank? Klasse. Apparently there is talk … more →

Tags: corruption, Politics, press, Blair, snark

For constituency work

yorksranter wrote 6 months ago: What is all this whining about MPs doing constituency work? It seems to be conventional wisdom acros … more →

Tags: Politics, Protest, Ideology, press

can't we, you know, move on?

yorksranter wrote 6 months ago: Proponents of UAVs like to talk about the “enduring stare”; their ability to remain on s … more →

Tags: iraq, Torture

the Harrowell option

yorksranter wrote 7 months ago: A lot of other countries who are small economies compared to the USA or China, industrialised, and h … more →

Tags: Socialism, Strategy

tearing up the astroturf

yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads has a hell of a story. Now, I’ve not always been totally convinced … more →

Tags: Internet, intelligence and stupidity, Fisking, Action

spies3 comments

yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: “Londonstani” has a superb post at Abu Muqawama about Ed Husain’s The Islamist. Re … more →

Tags: home office, intelligence and stupidity

the time has come to shoot you down

yorksranter wrote 10 months ago: OK, the last post wasn’t totally serious. But is it too much to say that John Redwood is back? … more →

Tags: Politics, Tories, Economics

Burn, Hollywood, Burnham!3 comments

yorksranter wrote 11 months ago: It is come to this. Here is our Secretary of State for Culture: The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, … more →

Tags: Surveillance, home office, Internet, Fisking, Ideology, Europe, Networks, Empire

Is this the CIA? Is this the IRA? Is this the UDA? No, it's the Grauniad...2 comments

yorksranter wrote 12 months ago: An interesting document was turned up in the course of the row about John Brennan, the CIA officer w … more →

Tags: 4GW, iraq, Surveillance, Sci-Fi, intelligence and stupidity, press, pirates, spy, Somalia

the world's deadliest novel strikes again2 comments

yorksranter wrote 12 months ago: Quite a score for our reader “Ajay”, who I think is the first to spot that the Mumbai te … more →

Tags: 4GW, Terrorism, pirates, Logistics, naval, Maps, Al-Qaida, Mindless violence

George Osborne: A National Embarrassment1 comment

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: George Osborne is not getting any better. His latest shaft of brilliance is to threaten everyone wit … more →

Tags: Class, Conservatives, Economics, Ideology, London, managerialism, Politics, Socialism, Tories


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