Phligm Phlagm for October

[philmophlegm]

David Cameron mourns the death of fascist historian

Say what you like about Robert Mugabe, but at least inflation has come down.

"We are luckier than we realise to have had Labour as our Left-of-Centre party".

Major League Baseball's triple crown

I like this US Democrat…

...but this one might be the most pathetic US Senate candidate in the whole country.

Life imitates South Park.

This year's Nobel economics prize winners.

I'm getting really fed up with all these ridiculous "Corporation X doesn't pay enough tax" stories. The ebay one is a particularly silly example.

RIP Ceefax.

The difference between a free trade area and a customs union, and why that is important.

Andrew Neill pretty much does to Ed Balls what Jeremy Paxman did to Michael Howard.

So, you're a developer of very dry, very nerdy train simulators for the PC. You want to earn some easy money for Halloween. What do you do...?

Lance Armstrong's seven TdF wins will not be given to anyone else.

Looking at the BBC culture that allowed the Jimmy Savile situation to develop. (Thanks to parrot_knight for the link.)

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

Inflation may have gone down under Robert Mugabe, but it also went up to the stupidly high rates they had under him. It's awful what has happened to such a beautiful country :-(

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Zimbabwe was fucked before Mugabe.

[chainmailmaiden]

Maybe, but he has hardly made it better and it is now unrecognizable from the place I traveled around some years back.