Friday 29 June 2012

Assholes.

When Barclay's manipulates Libor they get fined £290 million.
When politicians manipulate it, they get the Nobel Prize.
Everybody agrees politicians are low life liars; but they keep on voting for them.
Everybody needs a bank; but they try to sack bankers.

Sunday 24 June 2012

This is British Airways.

I've flown BA twice, and found the service to be acceptable.
That was 10 years ago.
But, as the 'Lympics draw near, they are repeatedly airing a particularly lousy commercial. It consists of a BA jet landing and taxiing all the way to the stadium.

In fact, BA will finish with you utterly at Heathrow.
Then you will have to make your way to your hotel, ten miles away in Central London. This will probably be a sweat-pit unless you pay for a proper, purpose-built hotel rather than a room in a converted terrace(families long ago ceased to afford actual family homes in London).

This journey(past various buildings-ooh, look. A building)will be in the company of stinking, aggressive, anti-social Londoners, whom you may regard as colourful if you are deluded enough.
Then, every time you want to visit the stadium(assuming you have tickets), you face a further 10 mile trip East, in the Sardine-like company of thousands, and when you get there, you will find nothing but the eternal British Winter to sit out in.

But if you love sports, hey, enjoy.
Just don't let BA dress up Hell as a basket of eggs.

Sunday 10 June 2012

This is the BBC.

I wanted to ask the bbc whether they would ever issue their 1954 production of 1984 as a dvd. I for one would be willing to buy it.
After twenty minutes I discovered that this multi-billion pound corporation scorns comment.
They have five message boards for one or two programmes. Members only. Moderated. And this after running around their website in circles.
In England, we are ruled by bastards. Bastards who think they're better than us.
But we have a choice; we can choose between pink bastards and blue bastards.

Friday 1 June 2012

Supernatural Fear

To people not acquainted with the rigours and efforts of reasoned understanding, those millions accustomed to feeling their enthusiasms as sufficient justification for pursuing any suicidal action, the writings of Ayn Rand must seem to possess the dark energy of pure witchcraft.

Indeed, attempts are made from within the noisy terror to burn this particular witch with unsurprising regularity.
Of course, it isn't Capitalism which is to blame for our current difficulties, it was the state manipulation of mortgage markets which caused the crash.
Governments simply thought, with criminal irresponsibility, that it would lengthen their personal careers if they used property-based credit as a lever to sustain a purchasing boom. The money went to China unfortunately, due to the state slavery which meant lower labour costs.

Meanwhile places like Spain, the shining boys of international political patronage, became a giant experiment in Keynesian delusion.
These economies were supposed to roar into a rich future, powered by euro-money infrastructure that would guarantee full employment and riches for all time.

Now that the Spanish credit-drunkard has finally vomited itself into the gutter, we see the inevitable Keynes-made world; a world of new roads which carry nothing, dozens of new airports with no aircraft or destinations, gleaming villages which won't get out of debt for several thousands of years, and 20% unemployment.
The solution to this isn't one thing, we know. It isn't Keynes.