Porn Premier Shows the Trickle-Down Effect in Action
In Victorian England, the nouveau riches, flush with their fortunes, set up charitable foundations to assist the unfortunate. The idea that wealthy people getting richer would result in assistance to the poor was perjoratively labelled the ‘trickle-down effect.’ Now, about as far from Victorian values as you might get, adult entertainment equipment purveyor, Phil Harvey is engaged in a similar noble endevour – providing condoms in Africa.
Read about it in the UK Economist.
A few conference oddities
1. Getting a bath in good champagne at the Bloomberg reception after someone decided to practice his waiter skills over my head with a rather large number of glasses.
2. Realising that “suicide bomber bulwarks” outside the B.I.C. also served as crash barriers as I watched a car hurtling towards me side-ways after being t-boned at the roundabout.
3. Manageing to lose half a stone between Sunday and Wednesday due to little eating and a lot of walking (Bournemouth is full of hills). I had to buy new shoes on Tuesday as my old ones disintegrated while I was walking in them.
4. Realising it is truly possible to not pay for a meal while at Tory Party Conference if you know how to play it.
5. Remembering that if you are truly greedy it is possible to ensure that you will not have to buy a pen for the next 12 months.
1 commentLifestyle Fascists in Denial As Their Schemes Go Up In Smoke
British Lifestyle Fascist MPs (surely ‘New Labour’?) visiting Ireland to look at the effects of the smoking ban on private premises such as pubs and restaurants, have gleefully embraced this destruction of freedom and want to extend it to the UK.
“The smoke-free law in Ireland is clearly popular,” said David Taylor, a Labour MP and chairman of the parliamentary group on smoking and health.“We will seek to apply the lessons learned from Ireland to Britain.”
But are today’s jackbooted pleasure-extermination-squads kidding themselves about public acceptance of the ban? This reporter, writing in the British Daily Telegraph certainly seems to think so.
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