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Read More Admin: new feature!December 2003
MacShane the Mouth busts loose
The new Europe minister, Denis MacShane, has launched a rant demanding the resignation of Romano Prodi on the grounds that he is spending too much time preparing his return to Italian politics. Whilst Macca has a point, it’s alarming that he went off like this. No.10 has now officially disowned the member for Rotherham’s brain…
Read More MacShane the Mouth busts looseAussie study shows each immigrant = A$250,000 more to the public purse
Sydney Morning Herald story According to some mob called Access Economics, an immigrant benefits the Australian state on average by 250,000 dollars. Apparently, 15-year olds are the best value – unsurprisingly, refugees get the lowest grade in this rather cold-blooded calculus, averaging only A$111,000. So – how much cash are the Australians spending on scouring…
Read More Aussie study shows each immigrant = A$250,000 more to the public purseYanks – Australians too leftwing to worry about!
Yankee Blog “I don’t recall the site, but I recently saw a comment (perhaps in reference to that Zakaria piece) basically asking why Hu Jintao got a better reception in Australia than Bush. Someone responded by basically dismissing Australians as just too left-wing to worry about. This is the most moronic comment in the world.…
Read More Yanks – Australians too leftwing to worry about!Watch what you blog!
Not so long ago, I blogged on the curious contents of this site’s search engine analysis, and referred to a post on Yankeeblog in which they reported that their site was (mysteriously) the third result on MSN’s search engine for the query “I want Pakistani sexy clips”. Foolishly I quoted them – now, examining my…
Read More Watch what you blog!Mind you – perhaps it wasn’t so weird?
“The West needs Russian cooperation in the fight on terrorism, it badly needs Russian oil and natural gas because the Middle East is unstable, and is in no position to actively resist a major move by Moscow to dominate and reintegrate the former Soviet republics. Sources close to the Kremlin have expressed the view that…
Read More Mind you – perhaps it wasn’t so weird?Yet further Caucasian weirdness – the GRU, the pipeline and the greens..
In the non-smouldering aftermath of Georgia’s revolution, a fresh burst of Caucasus weirdness was only to be expected. Fortunately it has so far kept within limits – just a couple of mystery aeroplanes, phone calls to BP-Amoco and sabre-rattling local bosses, nothing too serious. But that was until this truly odd story emerged… “A £2bn…
Read More Yet further Caucasian weirdness – the GRU, the pipeline and the greens..