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Electoral reform and extremist parties

No idea who he is, but Steven Skelton has an excellent article at Make My Vote Count about electoral reform and the rise of the BNP. It’s nothing I haven’t said before, but it’s very well put together and all in one place.

December 22nd, 2006 Posted by TaKtiX | electoral reform, BNP | 2 comments

Breaking news: Polly Toynbee is correct?

Breaking my hiatus here for this startling statement from Chris Dillow:

I’m breaking the first rule of blogging here, but I reckon Polly’s said something true

Message ends.

 Am in the middle of finishing off my current job and moving to London early New Year; long-planned revamp with new contributors should hopefully start then.

December 15th, 2006 Posted by TaKtiX | Xblogging, markets | no comments

Blair on ID vs Liberty - completely clueless?

Busy. Unable to comment on this delusional, totalitarian, and borderline racist crap about ID cards properly. Fortunately, Gareth and Tez Burke have done so already. Go read.

November 6th, 2006 Posted by TaKtiX | Blair, NuLab, ID cards, National Identity Register | one comment

Health records and the database state

Donald’s on form:

STATEMENT: If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
QUESTION: Do you have curtains?
STATEMENT: They’re to stop anyone perving over intimate moments with my wife.
QUESTION: You do know that as soon as they upload your STD records on that health database, the whole of Whitehall can see everyone you’ve fucked since freshers’ week?

Write To Them. Or chase down a Swiss grandad.

Damn stupid idiotic centralising authoritarian fools. Technology will solve all our problems. Especially if it’s a technology that we don’t really understand and will subcontract to a bunch of incompetents like Capita et al…

November 4th, 2006 Posted by TaKtiX | NuLab, civil liberties, National Identity Register | one comment

Britblog Roundup # 83

Tim’s got the weekly best of up, which is good. Especially liked Gavin’s post on UK partisanship.

Hmm, a challenge for me. Can I break the blogger’s block and write something good enough for inclusion in nest weeks? Meh, we’ll see.

September 17th, 2006 Posted by TaKtiX | Xblogging, britblog | no comments