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		<title>Ich bin ein Osbaldwicker (NIMBIs are good)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[England is too crowded and there is pressure for more housing and I guess it must be built but if we continue like this we will all be living in shoe boxes. Already I can see that my parents lived in a smaller home than my grand parents and I live in a smaller home than my parents.

Just a few more houses, just a few more. Just one more terminal at Heathrow Airport. Then, once it is built, just on more runway at Heathrow Airport. The argument for the Heathrow Airport is that England must maintain it's position as a global hub but for who's benefit? If our environment is gradually eroded by development then in who's benefit is this development?  Just when are we going to stop hankering after more and more stuff and start valuing the stuff we have?

Thus far an no further! Ich bin ein Osbaldwicker and all that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4825&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy London &#8211; Hypocrisy &amp; detachment of the establishment</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/24/%e2%80%9cyou-cant-wash-your-hands-of-the-consequence-of-your-actions%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, it was another of Mr. Hancok's statements that really angered me but first let me tell you about another Radio 4 program over the weekend. In BBC Radio 4's, The Bottom Line on Saturday Evan Davis interviewed the chairman of a boutique merchant bank, the chief executive of a financial advisory firm and the chief executive of a savings and investment group. When these men tried to dismiss the accusations that the bankers were to blame for the financial crisis Mr. Davis got fairly miffed and stated that just prior to the credit crunch, after a boom which had run on for ten years (and was therefore due to bust), a major bank had lent £40 for every £1 it had in deposits. This meant that if the value of its investments were to fall by just 2% the bank would be insolvent. This is incompetence and complacency on a massive scale. Further, at the same time, while the economy was booming, the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, was running a deficit. (If you can't repay debt in the good times then when can you?)

This evening on PM, Mr. Hancock said that the protesters outside St. Paul's had caused the cathedral to close, losing the church around £20,000 a day, that actions have consequences and “You can't wash your hands of the consequence of your actions”!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4316&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tories given easy ride at conference</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/05/tories-given-easy-ride-at-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also this week we had the supposed “clash” between Secretary of State for Justice Kenneth Clarke and the Home Secretary Theresa May. Theresa pointed out that a court ruling relating to immigration referenced the defendants ownership of a cat and Clarke expressed scepticism that this was a decisive factor. Was this really the biggest news so far at the Conservative conference? If it was then the big news should really have been that there was nothing happening at the conference.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4226&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Arab world &#8211; Everyone&#8217;s a winner</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/02/time-to-end-support-for-dictators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a middle east of modern democratic countries right on the border of the largest trading block in the world. I am talking of the European Union. While the world obsesses over whether China will supplant America as the largest economy in the world they overlook the fact that the EU has an economy larger than both.

With the Arab world modernising the trade would take off and this would be great news for Arabs and Europeans. There was speculation in The Economist in 2009 of solar powered electricity generation in the Sahara with the electricity transported to Europe across the Mediterranean.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3606&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choose debt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard that Argentina defaulted on its debt in 2002 yet my recollection is that The Economist has had some good things to say about its economy. Iceland also hit troubled times and let its investors face write offs yet an Economist article on Ireland cagily suggested that Ireland could learn a thing or two from the way Iceland handled its crisis.

It seems that all the “experts” are suggesting that the debts be written off. Yes, the lenders (read your pension funds and rich bastards) will lose out in the short term but perhaps this is no worse than dragging the problem out for years and arriving at the same conclusion years later.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3533&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CPS prosecute man for warning drivers of speed gun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard on Radio 4 that the CPS have prosecuted a driver ( Michael Thompson ) who flashed his lights to warn motorists of a mobile police speed gun. They charged him with wilfully obstructing a police officer in the course of her duties.

This is an outrageous infringement of civil liberties. The speed gun is to catch people who are actually speeding NOT people who may be INTENDING to speed. By flashing his lights Mr Thompson could not have affected anyone who was actually speeding.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3472&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Edengate &#8211; did God overreact?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Praise be indeed. How very festive. Personally I think that God overreacted. If he'd asked me I would have advised him to give them a warning and moved the fruit trees away so that they couldn't be tempted. Or take it away completely. Put it somewhere else. On Jupiter maybe. That's how I would have designed the universe. Put all the things that you don't want near each other.....a long way away from each other...so to speak. Better still, if he'd used a bit of psychology he could have given them all some kind of magic temporary illness and then said: "Ha! Ha! I warned you? But oh no, you'd rather listen to snakes than the Lord thy God."

I guess he would have had to reverse the effects of the magic fruit too but....Oh, well...obviously I'd need more detailed information to say exactly what God should have done in the circumstances and he didn't ask me anyway but I still think he overreacted.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3383&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men who think that they&#8217;re right</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it provocative because it follows The Pope's announcement of a new “Apostolic Constitution” to provide a legal framework for the many thousands of Anglicans and former Anglicans who are unhappy with Anglican policy toward homosexuals to convert to Catholicism. It is also provocative because, Queen Elizabeth II is the head of The Church of England and traditionally makes a speech on Christmas Day.

We should remember that the leaders of all religions are self appointed. They are men who think they are right and that everyone should do what they say. Considering the bad press that Catholicism has received regarding rampant and unrepentant child abuse this year I think this blatant empire building is ill timed and demonstrates that religions dignitaries have no more claim to morality that the rest of us.

As a good agnostic I am fairly tolerant of all manner of religious idiocy but religions poaching followers can easily lead to real confrontation. I often find it useful to reverse an argument or situation to getter a better handle on it. HOw would it be if The Queen did  a Christmas message on 104.5 FM Roma and announced a scheme for Catholics who a unhappy with their kids being abused by Catholic priests to convert to The Church of England?

With the situation in Ireland still fragile we do not need some bloody German stirring up sectarian antagonism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3358&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you posh or not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For any students researching such topics The Ryan Air calendar can be seen here and I report this as, from a TALKING BOLLOCKS standpoint, these two features highlight the ingrained class structure of British Society and this is in no way a cynical attempt to raise ratings.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3222&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Americans all Potty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, I sometimes find myself wondering, if Americans appear potty to the British, why do we not hold similar opinions of other nationalities? It is possible that pottyness is merely the most prominent defining character for Americans and that other nationalities too have their defining characters but I think that  what is more likely is that the language we share with Americans enables us to gain an insight into their world view and that we are denied this insight with other nationalities. This reasoning is strengthened as I believe that Brits also consider Australians to be potty. Perhaps if we were fluent in Spanish or Chinese we would consider them potty too?

I guess that if an understanding of the language of a foreign country means that on is capable of appreciating their pottyness then, as English is the most common second language, it is the British who must appear the most potty and that is a stereotype that I am very happy to live with.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2570&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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