Private property unless it's a nice house
Classic Nimbyism here, or perhaps plain 'idiotarianism' (or more likely the pressure of overbloggin). Tim Worstall rants away in the Spectator
blog about someone not being allowed to destroy their own property anymore, and it being the end of private property etc. Here he
demands action to stop private property being demolish (there's a weak justification in the comments about light, which doesn't really seem to have any foundation). Nick Cohen wasn't fooled.
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Near-Live Wet Wet Wet blogging
Nick Cohen said this [1], Nick Cohen said that [2], is all very well. But as promised more than a year ago this blog is proud to announce near-live-blogging of
Wet Wet Wet's [see picture [3]] 20th
anniversary tour.
Our new employee (of whom all i can reveal is that she is not the tallest women in the audience) is to attend a whole string of these, and has promised to report back on Pellow and the Boys. Last night was Birmingham, and after meeting the band in their hotel beforehand the concert was as follows:
"It was very good, although the audience felt subdued and, typically, I had the tallest woman in the audience stood directly in front of me! Pellow was on great form and the sound was terrific. One of the best things was getting
Love Is All Around done and dusted in the first five minutes, and there were loads of new tracks and some of the oldies were given a wash and brush-up. Bring on Glasgow on Sunday!"
[1]
"Why It Is Right to be Anti-American"[2] Can we have a decent left?
Here.
[3] Searching google images for "wet wet wet" is not advisable if you are at work.
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English wine
Land of Hope and Glory,
Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee,
Who are born of thee?By drinking English wine, of course. That's my project for the summer, anyway. On the whole the quality is pretty good these days if you choose carefully. Prices are relatively high, however.
Thus I can certainly recommend this week's tipple, from
Yearlstone vineyard near Tiverton in Devon. They do five
wines - We bought two no.1s, and two no.5s, both of which are lovely. They have sold out of 2004 red wines, but - in my experience - English red wines aren't all that. If you can't get to Devon, you can buy these online
here (though I've not tried the service).
One advantage of English whites is that they are reasonably low in ABV, these range from 10.5% to 11%. So you can have two bottles.
Labels: Alcohol, English wine, Not a Tim Worstall paid blogging spot, wine
