North Africa’s Dictators Go Fishing for the Last Blue Fin Tuna

The sons of dictators lives are kept busy. Mubarak’s sons have been arrested and questioned on how they became so rich through property deals in Egypt, London and elsewhere. But, the press has not picked up some very fishy links. Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, the well known benefactor of the LSE, is also the major … Read more

What to Do on 29 April

The British government are urging the British people to take to their streets and celebrate a wedding. Not any wedding, but the heir to the British crown. If you are laid up on the day of national celebration, and unable to take to the streets in mass state sponsored celebration, you may enjoy Thomas Paine’s … Read more

Subsidies Suck

Republican Congressman, Reid Ribble, has joined the band of the brave and come out against subsidies for oil companies to develop oil and gas reserves. Rep Ribble is right.  Politicians and people have supported some really stupid ideas, many of them for a very long time, and the using taxpayers money to fund the wealthy … Read more