civil disobedience | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Sun, 23 May 2010 08:06:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Demonising Tories…or anyone…is so last century… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/demonising-tories-or-anyone-is-so-last-century/ Sun, 23 May 2010 08:06:15 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1133 Now that the smoke of battle (and confusion) of General Election 2010 has cleared and we have a Coalition Government that hasn’t yet been proven to be the spawn of Beelzebub, can I make a suggestion that demonising anyone in politics – even Tories – is not a good move? Twenty five years ago, during […]

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]]> You may have missed this…the day China pulled the plug. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/you-may-have-missed-this-the-day-china-pulled-the-plug/ Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:50:33 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=999 You might have missed this.  I certainly did – but then again for the last week or two I’ve been running around like the proverbial ‘blue arsed fly’ trying to juggle a variety of personal, professional and voluntary responsibilities whilst avoiding cat-induced sleep deprivation.  Anyway…where were you when China appeared to ‘turn off’ access to […]

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]]> The last freedom moped from nowhere city…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/the-last-freedom-moped-from-nowhere-city/ Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:40:08 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=491 Back in the 1980s there was a sit com on British TV called ‘The Young Ones’, which was based in a student house and followed the surreal adventures of the students who lived there.  One of the characters was a rather pompous, arrogant, wannabe anarchist called ‘Rick’, who was constantly going on about revolution, and […]

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]]> Twitter hacked – not the end of the world, no surprise, and a badge of honour. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2009/12/twitter-hacked-not-the-end-of-the-world-no-surprise-and-a-badge-of-honour/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:27:43 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=427 There’s a scene in the movie ‘Blazing Saddles’ where the Waco Kid, being asked why he’s ended up in prison for drunkenness, bewails the fact that when he was the well known gun-slinger everyone wanted to try and get him, so they could be the new number one.  He tells how he eventually hung up […]

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]]> The Bus Book – w/c 17th March – On Civil Disobedience https://joepritchard.me.uk/2008/03/the-bus-book-wc-17th-march-on-civil-disobedience/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:39:48 +0000 http://www.joep.communityhost.org.uk/?p=31 As the copy I have of ‘On Walden pond’ also includes this essay, it seemed churlish to not feature it here. Thoreau spent a night in prison during his time at Walden, because he neglected to pay a local tax.  Whether he would have spent longer in prison than a single night had the tax […]

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