When you think about it, democracy is really the tyranny of the majority. It is where the majority gets to impose it’s will on the minority, regardless of what is right or proper. This was made obvious to me in 1999 when Labour campaigned on introducing extra taxes for the “rich” (ostensibly to improve health), [...]

I noticed that today the Herald weighed in on the “Yes” side of the referendum. They had a poll. They had graphs. They had a lone “No” opinion for “balance”. They had a touching testimony from a loving, well-adjusted family who had not used smacking in child-rearing for generations (Discipline without pain for 50 years [...]

Just to be unconventional, I thought I would post these song lyrics for Pink Floyd’s 1983 album The Final Cut. Roger Waters wrote the album in protest at the Falklands War, which had already been won by the time the album came out. In Southampton Dock he is pointing out the similarities in the situation [...]