The Weekly Blog Posts - Sunday, February 17 2008

Monday

Norfolk Blogger says that New Labour has brought in Sick Britain. And he ain’t half right, and with the links to prove it.
Iain Dale asks if we can have a department to examine waste in governemnt spending, after discovering that the US has an Office of Thrift Supervision. Although its job is actually just an equivalent to our FSA. But still, the name could be used with a more appropriate task, couldn’t it?

Tuesday

James Forsyth at the Spectator Coffee House says that Labour really don’t the people of Britain to have a vote on the EU “Treaty”, so much so that they are threatening to remove the whip from Labour MPs who support the “I want a referendum” campaign. The obvious reason why they don’t want a referendum is because they’ll lose - and they know it.
David Beetham writes at OurKingdom that “a rights-based democracy is the best one we [can] have”. Which is surely wrong. It should be, if anything, the other way around - a responsibility-based constitution.

Wednesday

John Redwood is sad that parliament allows itself to be suspended so easily, considering the fights it has been through to stay ion session in the past. It truly is sad how easily it is letting it’s sovereignty be taken piece by piece by presidential governments.
Tony Sharp at the Waendal Journal points out that Labour vision of democracy is more and more centralised state power. Who’da thunk it?

Thursday

Ruthie Zaftig asks the media not to publish the name of the latest American teenager to go on a shooting spree, because it’s giving them fame. And she’s right. Let’s stop this glorification of these people. But of course they won’t.
Anthony Barnett at OurKingdom is absolutely right when he says that the title of Jack Straw’s speech on the idea of a written constitution [which I wrote about in my We The People column] for Britain defies satire: “Modernising the Magna Carta”. You couldn’t make it up.

Friday

Madsen Pirie at the ASI continues the excellent “Common Errors” series with no. 35 - destroying the mistaken belief that inherit wealth is unfair. And he doesn’t even mention the simple explanation that “life in unfair”.
Cassilis has a post on what flags really mean. They really are every cleverly done.
The Last Boy Scout shows a video which gives a whole new meaning to the idea of phone sex…

Saturday

Sam Coates writing at the Times’ Red Box asks whether political journalists should vote. He hasn’t since he joined the Times in 2000, but do others? My opinion is: who cares? So long as they don’t let it affect how they behave in their job, why does it matter at all?
Dr Crippen is looking for the most beautiful blogger. So why aren’t I included?
Asp has found a headline that states the obvious…

Sunday

Sally in Norfolk is upgrading to XP from Vista. Isn’t it supposed to be other way round?
Devil’s Kitchen has some choice words to say about MPs who have constituencies less than a hour away from Westminster claiming £20,000 of our money every year for second homes. How can they get away with this?!

If you have any blogs that you think I should monitor, or any posts in particualr that should be included in next week’s edition, please email me!