Thursday, 27 September 2007

Borwick, Warwick and Boff beaten by toff for chance to fail


Johnson chosen as Tory candidate for London mayor | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Little comment required else.

Saturday, 8 September 2007

Shock of the... what?

Shurely shome mishtake Naomi...

Extract: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein | Naomi Klein | Guardian Unlimited Books: "The Falklands war in 1982 served a similar purpose for Margaret Thatcher: the disorder resulting from the war allowed her to crush the striking miners and to launch the first privatisation frenzy in a western democracy."

I'm a fan of Naomi Klein, but this paragraph exhibits a grip on reality closer to Naomi Campbell... I was no fan of that war, and supported the miners, but there was no "disorder" in Britain due to the war. It's almost as if Klein think the UK was invaded by the Argies! If she wanted to link the Thatcher regime in to (very interesting) "disaster capitalism" thesis, it would be more plausible to look at the shock therapy of deliberate mass unemployment created by this early zealot of Friedmanite economics.