October 2010
4 posts
The English drinking tea
“The English — a gentle people with a deep sense of justice and fairness, difficult to rouse and slow to criticise but, when the time comes, a people stubbornly determined to do what is right.” - George Orwell The English drinking tea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRj2K0ulD8Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSwrPT-ewE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqQc7hjhoU
Oct 19th
Oct 13th
The Internet is just a tool
“I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss...
Oct 12th
Swiss Democracy
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” - Orson Welles
Oct 3rd