Actually I quite like smoking and all the things advertised on this poster so it shows how messed up I am and how tricky and pointless it is to pontificate about this sort of malarky.
A couple of posts back Thus got on an uncharacteristically high horse about the dangers of Methadrone. My comments were not [...]
The UK media have been scratching their pointy heads of late as the opinion poll gap between New Labour and the Tories has closed to indicate at best a hung parliament. Despite looming and actual strikes, a record budget deficit with no prospect of recovery, real and impending tax rises, unemployment levels at a 30 [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Economics, Education, Policy, UK politics, democracy, political theory, public sector reform
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Tagged David Cameron, feelgood factor, GordonBrown, jerrymandering, John Major, middle way, Uk 2010 General Election, UK public sector
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March 29, 2010 – 12:12 pm
Shilly-shallying about what to do about Chinese designer ‘plant food’ drug Methadrone/Mephedrone/MCat is another unwelcome example of how New Labour’s passive/aggressive approach towards protecting citizens’ rights does the reverse. It’s enough to drive a man to spliff.
Last October, former NL drug czar, the (perhaps) aptly named Professor David Nutt resigned/was sacked from the Advisory Council on [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Culture, Drugs legislation, Law and order, Policy, Political spin, Uk Home Office, Uncategorized, World health, civil rights, consumerism
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Tagged advisory Counciul on the Misuse of Drugs, alan Johnson, MCat, mephedrone, methdaone, MKat, Polly Taylor, Professor David Nutt
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November 3, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Thus predicted this outcome so long ago and so many times that I can scarcely be bothered to highlight our previous posts. Yet the grotesque reality of the US, Britain, NATO and especially the UN rewarding endemic fraud, corruption and weak government by a second term, all enacted under the banner of democracy, surpasses all [...]
August 25, 2009 – 9:08 pm
“If Karzai’s warlord cronies have over-egged the firnee and their boy romps home with an incredible margin, Iran-style riots are almost inevitable. On the other hand, if he narrowly wins, it will be more difficult for the opposition forces to cry foul. Given that he achieved only 54 per cent in 2004, the ‘ideal’ result [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Asia, Global security, Human rights, Insurgency, Law and order, United Nations, War on Terror, civil rights, democracy
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Tagged Abdullah Abdullah, afghanistan elections karzai lead narrows, Hamid Karzai, Karzai and abdullah to settle election with a pro wrestling bout, karzai campaign financed with 2 million dollar interest free loan, thus magazine proposes jeb bush as afghan election monitor
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August 23, 2009 – 8:48 pm
This morning, in a cynical volte face, Abdullah Abdullah, the leading challenger to incumbent, President Karzai, declared that the Afghan election was rigged, having previously declared himself the winner. Earlier speculation that the two candidates identified by a Free and Fair Elections spokesman as responsible for widespread intimidation and ballot-rigging in the Afghan election (Thus passim) [...]
August 23, 2009 – 11:54 am
While resisting the temptation to say ‘we told you so’ (Thus passim) – it is glaringly evident that, as predicted, the Afghan elections were neither free nor fair. Except that by an extraordinary contortion of logic and semantics, the EU monitors have declared that they were ‘generally fair but not free.’ Well, thanks for putting [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Global security, Insurgency, Intifada, Policy, Political spin, US Politics, United Nations, War on Terror, civil rights, democracy, miscarriage of justice
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Tagged Abdul Rashid Dostum, Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan elections neither free nor fair says Thus Magazine, EU election monitors, Hamid Karzai, John J Kelly, Muhammad Qasim Fahim, neither warlord will secure more than 50% of a turnout well below 50% of the population in the first place, Pashtun, Takik, UNAMA, warlords
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Both Labour and Tories are backing plans to more than double student tuition fees to £7000 within four years. Labour shamelessly abandoned its 2001 election manifesto promise that ‘it will not introduce top-up fees and has legislated against them’ – then introduced them in 2004.
The Dearing Report, commissioned in 1996 under Tory [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Culture, Education, Policy, Political spin, UK politics, privatisation
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Tagged Alan milburn, Blunkett, Butler Education Act 1944, Charles Clarke, Dearing Report, Higher Education Act 2004, Ian Gibson, John Major, New Labour, social engineering, Tony Blair, Tory plans to privatise Uk schools
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India just de-criminalised gay sex. That is a staggering fact, because it affects the sense of sexual freedom of 1 in every 6 human beings. Despite the fact that many of the laws currently being challenged date from colonial occupation, many in India identify this reform with dark forces of westernisation and globalisation rather than [...]
By Daniel Taghioff
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Also posted in Asia, Development, Human rights, India, civil rights, democracy
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Tagged decolonisation, Forest Law, Forest Rights, Gandhian ideals, Hindu, history of others, Indias Gays, Inidian sexual politics, Jude0-Christian sexual repression, pro life Christian Right, Roe vs Wade, Section 377, Sodomy Act 1860
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Tribal politics won the day again in the mother(fucker) of all Parliaments as 59 Labour MPs voted yesterday to defeat the Tory motion to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US (Thus passim). 84 Labour MPs had signed the motion to review the 2003 Extradition Treaty but under pressure from the whips [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in British identity, Human rights, Politics, Totalitarian drift, UK politics, democracy, extradition, human rights abuse
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Tagged by John J Kelly, Gary McKinnon, gary McKinnon still faces extradition after UK Parliament falls into line with US masters, Mandelson rumoured to take over as Labour leader before next election, Mandelson whips MPs over McKinnon vote, Thus Magazine, Thus Magazine calls for Gary McKinnon to be freed, UK confirmed as 51st State, UK-US special relationship
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