In my opinion his leaks have encouraged casual racism, and aided those who have remarketed themselves as an anti-immigration party.  But – regardless of whether I agree with him, I think the police actions, presumable MPSB, were extremely heavy handed, and signify the steady aggregation of laws that could be used to stifle democracy and freedom of speech. From the police arresting teenagers for holding signs with the world ‘cult’ on them, to routinely detaining protesters under anti-terror legislation, to local councils spying on residents because of secret allegations,  to casual photographers being told they can’t photograph freely,  to prohibition of protest within areas that may cause offence to elected officials, to detention without charge, to the constant drip-drip of scare stories telling us how afraid we should be, to identity cards ripe for official abuse and spying, to hassling journalists at protests,  to proposed databases of your web browsing and email history.

FOR EXAMPLE.

At what point do people of all political stripes speak up?  Is it really OK for those who are left leaning to justify this because it’s a Tory?

Apparently Boris Johnson and Michael Martin knew about this before the Home Secretary.

Amazing…

I’m left leaning/apolitical/probably a wimpy lib-dem voter – but I think I’d like to be someone who speaks out rather than stays quiet.  I sodding hate politics; but I keep getting forced into saying something, because, morally speaking, I think it is right to do so.  You’re welcome to deal with your own conscience.

All apes ever get credit for is fiddling with themselves, lobbing shit at people, picking fleas off each other, and hanging around. I think that is very unfair and my idea for a television programme would solve the issue.

If I were David Cameron post-bike scoop I’d market myself as a maverick prepared to bend the rules to get the job done. Dr House MD, on a bicycle. Minus the Vicodin. With legs that work. David Cameron with a Vicodin habit would break Broken Britain’s broken back. The Vicodin straw. The kids look up to Cameron – the street youth. Hipsters, fidget godivas, and Vicodin, all being David Cameron’s fault. Prompting apocalyptic headlines in The Daily Mail, Armageddon in The Sun, and wanky, serious discussion, with mostly idiots, in The Broadsheets. Fuck them! What does David Cameron want with them anyway? Dr House MD wouldn’t give a fuck. Oh, and The Mirror are a bunch of twats too. Just to be even handed and all. The newspapers are crap by-and-large because a great deal of the people that read them are idiots.

In other upcoming news from this armchair economist:

March 14th – Iranian parliamentary elections.  Watch oil prices in the next few weeks.  If it hits $140, we’re all fucked economy-wise, at least temporarily.  More possible than most people realise because they don’t know how OPEC works or the proportion of Iranian oil on the world market.

Interesting times as always.

FYI – a recession is often thought of as a negative change in the rate of growth.  The rate of growth is not the same as negative growth.  So when people say “the economy is slowing”…  You get the idea; something slowing is a negative change in the rate of growth.  It’s like negative acceleration when a car slows down. The press is generally too fuckwitted to work that one out.