Oh, and I nearly forgot, my Freedom of Information Act request about the Icons website arrived the other day. It will require some thorough reading, but it looks fascinating already… I’ll keep you informed.
Archive for February 18th, 2006
In response to this: Fabian Society Conference on Britishness, I have written this:
The contributors to the Fabian British Conference make some interesting observations about England.
Indeed, England is large and would make the United Kingdom seem top-heavy, but that is a necessary consequence of the government’s devolution settlement. Until 1998 England was largely satisfied with the status quo; Scottish, and to some extent, Welsh nationalism created the need in the mind of the Labour party to placate the Celts with devolution.
Unfortunately, as with a lot of legislation that governments put down, it was not thought through. The English have an identity which slumbered under British rule. With devolution, the only just result for England was a similar level of self-governance to Scotland. Wales, too, was not given equity.
If devolution cannot be reversed, and I suspect there is no chance of that, there are only two alternative fair solutions: devolution for England or independence for Scotland and Wales. Again, it would seem obvious that the latter is not yet wanted by the majority so in the meantime, for the sake of democracy, England must be granted a Parliament. Conferences on Britishness can only have one purpose: to subdue the natural English tendency to seek justice and fairness — devolution does not grant that in its current form and England is responding.
I welcome your comments.
What we’ve learnt, then, is that the Chinese Vietnamese (thanks John) drive on the left… wait, no, the right…
Okay, so I don’t know. You tell me based on the evidence!
Some interesting comments have been added about Coeliac disease: here and here.
I just thought I’d bring your attention to them as they’re so far down. Of course, you can see recent comments here: Recent Comments. It reminds me that I’ve not posted on the condition in quite a while.
Update: And the message board she added: here
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