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Universities are not the fucking police (pun intended)
Apparently, universities are not keeping records of "sexual" crimes.Fewer than half of elite universities in Britain are monitoring the extent of sexual violence against students.And why should...
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Women pay
Here's another one to file under "No shit, Sherlock"...In Chile, a law requires employers to provide working mothers with child care. One result? Women are paid less.In Spain, a policy to give parents...
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The great charity scandal
A gentleman named David Craig has written a new book, called The Great Charity Scandal, which he summarises in an article over at the Daily Mail.The figures are astonishing. There are more than 195,289...
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They're all centrists now: and we are but piggy-banks
Stephen Pollard's article in the Daily Mail is not the first to sound the death knell for the Labour Party—but it is one of the more scary ones for those of us who are libertarians.One by one, Labour's...
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Coddling Cosslett
The election result threw up an awful lot of self-righteous fury from the Left. But even those angry, war memorial-defacing arseholes are preferable to the kind of whiney, tedious bollocks spouted by...
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No—I'm Squander Two!
Squander Two has penned a superb post outlining the reticence (or, rather, politeness) of many non-Lefties on Facebook. Often in the face of considerable provocation from the Lefty "echo chamber".Some...
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FFA or and bust
Following their remarkable win, the SNP is now pushing for Full Fiscal Autonomy (FFA) for Scotland. Broadly speaking, this means that Scotland runs its own economy—being able to spend cash and raise...
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The SNP: timely as ever
One might almost believe that the SNP were eagerly monitoring the Kitchen, alert for any sign of the guidance that your humble Devil (as a former resident) might offer these benighted politicians.Just...
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On the other hand...
Well, this makes sense...For many years, I was confounded by my blackouts, but the mechanics are quite simple. The blood reaches a certain alcohol saturation point and shuts down the hippocampus, part...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep...?
The above is the title of the Philip K Dick novella from which Blade Runner took inspiration and, finally, we can now answer the question that it posed.No, they don't.Apparently, they dream of...
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Lindsey Stirling: Take Flight
I love this video—it's beautiful and inventive. The music's not too shabby either...
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Actually, the poor did cause it
Caroline Lucas: demon.It is raining hard right now, and this makes me happy.Why?Because it will hopefully ensure that the "tens of thousands" of people marching against "austerity" have a thoroughly...
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BBC armageddon bollocks
Apparently, the Buttered New Potato told Nick Robinson that he was going to close down the BBC.Mr Robinson said that while travelling on the bus, Mr Cameron dismissed a BBC story claiming that he had...
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BRAAAIIINS!
It appears that we are suffering the night of the living dead! For lo! as The Kitchen rises, slowly, from the grave, it seems that Bella Gerens has also uttered started to mutter about "brains"...
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Trading lies
Now, one could be charitable and say that it's an editing issue. However, I choose to believe that Lucy Thomas is, in fact, telling a deliberate untruth in today's City AM debate. [Emphasis...
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Bee calm
Obviously, we are all going to die because... Noooo beeeeeees.Or not.Activists insist wild bees are being killed by neonicotinoid insecticides. But as the research paper notes: “[T]he species that are...
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Labour's fixed that for you
According to the Daily Wail, George Osborne (amongst others) lobbied hard against the Tories' EU referendum pledge.George Osborne pleaded with David Cameron not to hold an in/out referendum on the...
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Quote of the Day...
... comes from an anonymous Labour advisor on the subject of Jeremy Corbyn.“We’ve had shit leaders before and we’ve survived,” a longstanding adviser said. “This is politics; anything can happen and...
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Wind power is too expensive at any price, you fool
This morning, CityAM published a spectacularly silly article by Ben Goldsmith on energy provision in the UK (which is, as we know, looking pretty dicey right now).Upon reading the first part of...
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Teaching Gruber
John Gruber runs one of the most visited blogs on the entire internet. Most of your humble Devil's readers will never have heard of him, because he writes about technology in general and (largely)...
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Espousing libertarianism
Over at the Libertarian Alliance blog, Keir Martland has written of what he views as a failure of the LA to advance the Libertarian cause in a significant way, and an analysis of the various other ways...
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A fake charities victory!
2009-01-19T03:47:08ZThat was the date and time that your humble Devil first registered the fakecharities.org domain—19th January 2009. I built the first fakecharities.org site that night, using a...
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No, I am not a corporation—and the charities should shut up
The thoroughly sound blogger, Dick Puddlecote has been rather kind about your humble Devil, re: the whole Fake Charities thing.Mr Puddlecote, quite rightly, points out that I did not do it because I...
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My message to Matthew Hancock
I have sent the following message to Matthew Hancock, who piloted the fake charities clause.Matthew,As the originator of the phrase “fake charities” (and the website that, once, accompanied it), I...
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George Osborne is not a cunt...
... because, being a straight man, I think that cunts are rather pretty and certainly desirable.George Osborne, however, is a total fucking fucktard with all of the economic talent of a field mouse....
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