We are onto day three of Occupy London Stock Exchange Occupy Some Space Near St. Paul’s Cathedral. It’s a shame because until the end of last year I worked right next to Paternoster Square and I feel like I’m missing out…
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Call out the instigators, because there’s something in the air….
Are you ready for the revolution? Because it’s happening. It’s happening today! Can you smell it in the air? Can you feel it in the wind? No, me neither. However, a group is currently gathering in Paternoster Square in the…
The Guardian on China
Oh, the horseshit one reads in The Guardian sometimes. I’m accustomed to disagreeing with the majority of their columnists these days and I’ve long found their editorial stance antithetical to my own on many issues. But I can’t recall seeing…
Hugo Chavez – champion of the people
Ah, Hugo Chavez, hero of the people. A socialist stalwart, standing up to US hegemony, a beacon of virtue in a corrupt capitalist world. Beloved by so many of the left, prepared as they are to hero worship any authoritarian…
Farewell, Fidel
So Fidel Castro has gone, if not yet physically then politically. As you would expect, mouthpieces of the far left have trotted out to praise this dictator and his failed state that has endured nearly fifty years of dictatorship. Somehow…
Beware the tide of marchers
In addition to my esteemed visit, Manchester also played host on Saturday to an anti-war march. 60,000 protesters (at least, according to the organisers – the police put the figure more at 20,000) walked through the city to oppose, oooh,…
Left Out In The Cold
Introducing our first guest blogger: Devil’s Advocate. Devil’s Advocate is an acquaintance of The Realist and a regular reader of Liberal Elite, albeit one who often disagrees with us. True to the spirit of liberalism, we’ve offered him a guest…
Citizen Sane 
If at first you don’t succeed, Trident again
I agree with the decision to renew Britain’s nuclear deterrent. I don’t know enough about nuclear warheads to make a convincing case for Trident itself – there seems to be a school of thought that the programme is out of…
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