Category: Polithicks
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Thought Vomit #48: Iran
I was going to vomit a lengthy Thwat about having a recent memory of people claiming that Iran was not close to revolt, and that it’s not lead by a brutal theocracy, but as ever, pictures tell a better story than any inarticulate words I can conjure: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html It’s often easy to forget how lucky…
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Thought Vomit #47: Two Surveys
Gordon Brown isn’t going to resign. Not because of some pig-headed obtuseness on his part, nor because he is deluded; but because the Labour Party simply cannot afford to run a leadership election. They’re broke from all accounts. That goes a long way to explaining the machinations of the Cabinet reshuffle, which was, in my…
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Thought Vomit #39: ft. Evidence
The evidence that evidence is increasingly less important is mounting up. Not only in the legal systems around the world, where the notion of being innocent until proven guilty is being eroded, but more and more in other areas. There are two examples in the news today. First, most of the papers I’ve seen are…
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Thought Vomit #37: ft. Electoral Reform
I found out today that there are more than two available electoral voting systems. I found this out because the news finally decided to talk about electoral reform in terms other than first past the post, or proportional representation. Unfortunately, they decided to frame this debate in a process story about whether Alan Johnson was…
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Thought Vomit #35: ft. State Funded Religious Indoctrination
There are 6,358 faith state primary schools in England, and another 589 secondary ones. As of 2001, these broke down into: 4,716 Church of England schools; 2,108 Roman Catholic ones; 32 Jewish; 4 Muslim; 2 Sikh; 1 Greek Orthodox; and 1 Seventh Day Adventist. That’s one third of the compulsory education system in the hands…
