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Blue Origin is hiring

Samizdata.net (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

If you want to be a part of the most secretive of the New Space launch companies, here is your opportunity!...

Labour's Glasgow Campaign in Disarray

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

The SNP must be laughing all the way to the ballot box. Tonight the favourite for the Labour nomination for Glasgow East withdrew from the selection contest, leaving them without a candidate and a cancelled campaign launch event in the morning. David Cameron and IDS were in the constituency today, with Alex Salmond there tomorrow to support the SNP candidate John Mason. What is it about Labour failing...

faith destroyed!!

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

As some may have noticed, posts from yours truly have been extremely thin on the ground as of late. Multiple reasons, partly personal and family, partly work; but I break my silence to announce that I am fast losing my faith in human nature. My reasons are quite simple, in that the shower who live on the neighbouring 'sink' estate are not acting in their usual predatory manner, and this I just cannot...

Jesse Helms

Parburypolitica (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Another dinosaur is now extinct.

Ray Lewis resigns

Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Wow, just wow. I was out all evening with family and didn’t hear about the resignation of Ray Lewis until I got in. I thought I was being a little far fetched yesterday when I wondered if he’d resign. Really didn’t think it’d be 24 hours later! More at Boris Watch.

Bob Geldof on Freedom & Liberty

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Bob Geldof paid a visit to Haltemprice & Howden today to support David Davis. He gave a terrific speech, which you can read HERE . Here's an excerpt... Let us be grand for once then, for we talk of great subjects. Let us ask ‘what is the point of England “ now that Parliament, whose primary purpose is to defend the liberties of the people have so gratuitously, so wantonly, so casually betrayed that...

ATW Mug Sighting

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

ATW FRIDAY JUKEBOX - PART THREE

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Here is a touching song which you really should listen to. I have always liked this and hope you may enjoy it - brings a lump to the throat towards the end.... I don't necessarily accept some of the visual subtext but hey - it's enthralling.

MURDERER IS PEACE-MAKER THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and a former commander of the IRA and alleged murderer, arrives in Baghdad tomorrow to promote Northern Ireland as a model for reconciliation between Iraq's embattled Shia and Sunni communities. Here's the formula, redux. Bomb and shoot your way into political office. Then pretend that all the killing was an understandable response to...

• Martin McGuinness to advise Iraqis on making peace - Belfast Telegraph
• McGuinness to advise Iraqis on making peace - The Independent

WHY WE LOVE ISLAM...

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Comments on this would be appreciated... "Two schoolboys were allegedly disciplined after refusing to kneel down and "pray to Allah" during a religious education lesson. It was claimed that the boys, from a year seven class of 11 and 12-year-olds, were given detention after refusing to take part in a practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped. " It's called institutional dhimmitude and ATW...

ATW FRIDAY ULTIMATE JUKEBOX...

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Yes, I've put it on before and will do again - it's three minutes of perfection - my favourite song of all time - a blast from the past that lasts...

It wasn't like this in my day

Bishop Hill (Free subscription) | yesterday

In my day, English Lit exams were strictly about dead white males. O' Level consisted of Shakespeare, Chaucer and GBS, and very dull it was too. Still, it gave you backbone, as well as teaching you the valuable life skill of being able to sleep with your eyes open while maintaining an expression of rapt attention. Not a bit like today's dumbed down stuff, where some of the authors are actually not...

ENVIRONMENTALISM LEADS TO STARVATION...

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body. Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line , estimates the...

JESSE HELMS..

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

I was sad to read that former US Republican Senator Jesse Helms - a leading conservative politician - has died aged 86. He died early on Friday of natural causes in Raleigh, North Carolina, his former chief of staff said. Mr Helms had served five terms in the Senate representing North Carolina before stepping down in 2003. I recall corresponding with him - and getting a very nice reply - way back during...

ATW FRIDAY JUKEBOX - 4TH JULY

Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

I was reading Mahons post and thinking about tonight's song selection - this one appealed.