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A blog by Patrick Crozier

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100 State Failures
100 State Failures
State Failure #91: Exploding Russian televisions
Another 100 State Failures
State Failure #1: The Osbourne Judgement
State Failure #3: The R101
State Failure #20: The DDT ban
State Failure #26: The National Health Service
State Failure #104: State-produced cannabis
State failure #25: State education

Alsace
Continental Bank Holidays are different

Blogging
The newspaper is dead
We regret to announce that
Suspension of service
Here we go again
Syonara
Blogging will be light over
Back in the saddle
How to blog
Blogging: the race is on
On blogging
To reply or not to reply
To the blogrolls!
Medworth
Alice Bachini is back
Micropayments
Mark Holland...
The trouble with blogs and a possible solution
The End

Building
Other Stories
Modern houses - Update #1
Modern houses - Update #2
Modern Houses - Update #3
Battle to save Tokyo landmark from bulldozers
Why are UK house prices so high?
What's wrong with modern houses?

Bush 2004


Conservative Party
Storm over Tory splits
Other news
Left plot backfires
Other news
Clarke attacks Duncan Smith
Conservatives back?
The future of the Conservative Party
CrozierVision quote of the day
The Tories' vicious circle
Croziervision not-very-well-thought-out theory of the day
Croziervision quote of the day
Random thoughts on Michael Howard - Part I
The lurch to the right
Random thoughts on Michael Howard - Part II
Why I can't stomach Jonathan Aitken's new-found saintliness

Crime
Carr slams opportunists
Toynbee slammed
Take the CrozierVision Challenge
Other stories
Crime: what London can learn from New York
So, that's why Tokyo's streets are so clean!
A suitable case for vigilantes
Three cheers for Mickey Nitpick
On hooliganism
Crime is down

Drugs
Other news
Come on if you think you're hard enough
Freedom attacked - libbies silent
Relegalize all drugs now
Libertarians for tyranny
Telegraph mole strikes
State Failure #104: State-produced cannabis

Economics and Business
Microsoft
Don't be beastly to BT
Go East!
Other News
Other Stories
Other stories
Other news
Why do poor people breed?
Time for Currency Restoration
Don't write off the Japanese - a response
The Coming Crash
VHS v Beta
Tim Martin: capitalist hero
Glenn Reynolds on the internet
Shadowing the deutschmark
Who says Germany's in recession?
The shops of the future
How should one go about adjusting for inflation?

Education
The Message is getting out there
A Levels too easy
Want a degree? First change your politics
"Ooh, he's uttered his first viva voce"
Other Stories
Indie blasted
Estelle Morris
Blog roundup
German Education
How much do you need to “know” when you can google?
Education before the state

Environment
Recycling is bollocks

European Union
Europeans "not living in the real world" - Cuthbertson
The great Euro price hike
Other news
Other news
Euro lobby hires critic of currency
Why I am a Eurosceptic
Vive la France libre
Don't forget to vote
The influence argument
The burning issue
More EU claptrap
Queen raises fears over EU constitution
Euro-Constitution Referendum
Why Blair will lose a referendum on the EU constitution
Vlaams Blok banned

Films
Hollywood not completely crap - shock
Salute to Whit Stillman
My Top Ten favourite movies
Whatever happened to the Brit-bashing movie?
Film review: Wicker Park

First Principles
What I want from a political philosophy
Why I am a libertarian
What I mean by “libertarian”
All things are relative
How do you know if something is a problem?
In search of bad regulations
The market will provide
The questionable assumption behind safety regulations
All restrictions on freedom have bad effects
Examples of freedom working
The state almost always fails

First World War
Gallipoli
First World War.Com
World War One in colour - Channel 5
Chateau generals?
How competent were Britain's First World War Generals?
Footnotes to "How competent were Britain's First World War Generals?"

Fisking Polly Toynbee
Toynbee slammed
Fisking Polly Toynbee – Part One
Fisking Polly Toynbee – Part Two
Fisking Polly Toynbee – Part Three
Fisking Polly Toynbee – Part Four

Football
Brazil 2 England 1
Football's Aristocracy
Keane in big trub
Real Madrid v Manchester United
Glasgow giants deserve more than playing in two-team league
The Beckham move
3 points for a win
Arsenal's disciplinary record
Are you ready for the pain?
Croziervision quote of the day
This is an interesting table
Do we need the offside law?
England's Dream Team
England 3 Switzerland 0
Is the European Championship the world's greatest sporting tournament?
Musings on Euro 2004
Everton better off without Rooney

Formula 1
What's wrong with Formula One?
Some Formula 1 links

Frivolity
And finally...
Strength through soy

Guns
Book backs call for gun reform
Other stories
Guns save lives
RKBA UK
Telegraph mole strikes
Essay on guns in the UK
CrozierVision quote of the day #2
CrozierVision sound bite of the day

Healthcare
The joys of socialised medicine
State Failure #26: The National Health Service
Healthcare did not start in 1948

Japan
The news from Japan
Spot the recession
You can click the photos...
Don't write off the Japanese - a response
The benefits of a low crime rate
Tokyo
Vandalism and graffiti at Hiroshima's Peace Park
So, that's why Tokyo's streets are so clean!
How expensive is Tokyo?
I really like this site...
Japan's economy

Kelly Affair
Dr Kelly's rules
Semantic grape slicing anyone?

Middle East
Riots in Iran
Our reaction to Mr Bigley's death is immature, dishonest and decadent

Miscellaneous
What should Britons think about the American Revolution?
Marvellous article by Matthew Parris.
Peter Cuthbertson's excellent Thought for
De Havilland in hospital - nation holds its breath
Pervert scare laws slammed
More calls for Arafat to go
No representation without taxation
Hacks hacked
Editorial - Miss Wells and Miss Chapman
Swap HMG for Heston
Rats to have rights
marmaladebadger.com back on the market
Vote for nobody!
Army to stay
Other news
Redistribution debate back on
Labour has philosophy - shock
Other News
Gagging Gwyneth - give her one for England
Other news
Other news
Other news
Other news
Tranzis trash Zim
Other news
Hole in anti-Tranzi thinking
"Non-elitist poof Brits" - I am sorry
Other stories
Axe the tab tax
Pollard in pain
Other stories
Stop the power grab
Other news
Up with Monarchy, down with Democracy
Things I've noticed
Anti-war man wins footpath fight
Cowardice
Keyboards
No sex before marriage
The Rules of War
What Would Happen If the Police Just Went Away?
Estelle Morris
Why I don't like Ms
Queer-bashing... Democrats
CrozierVision new word of the day
BNP Watch
CrozierVision pejorative term of the day
The fire strike - don't blame the unions
CrozierVision Word of the Day
A novel
How not to make the case for freedom
Will it be war or peace?
What are the French playing at?
Who's Lord Hunt?
A Crazy World
Defeating terrorism
Clones surprise scientists by being different
You can’t turn the clock back!
Cuba was a rich country...
Thought for the day
Thought for the day
CS cripple cuffed
Biscuits
CrozierVision quote of the day
Derry Irvine's pension
Vive la France libre
On the intended consequences of state intervention
Our day will come
What's it really like in France?
The ruler's tragedy
Ends vs means
Heard on a West London doorstep
The Kelly Affair
Augusto Pinochet - People's Hero
Barschak bombs
Boring Barber
Croziervision quote of the day
Art or fart?
Do we need an empire?
CrozierVision spelling mistake of the day
Quit complaining about your job
Frank Bruno is sectioned under Mental Health Act
Slliy sicncee has its uess
Hypocritical, pro-death weenies with froth around their mouths
Mark Steyn's article...
Croziervision (provisional) hero of the day
Croziervision put down of the day
You know it's garbage
The rape scandal
Aw sweet
CrozierVision Quote of the Day
Charles Murray does it again
CrozierVision welcomes President and Mrs Bush to the United Kingdom
Croziervision blog posting title of the day
The Big Silence
Croziervision Quote of the Day
Patrick predicts
Croziervision quote of the day #2
Justifying Dresden
Portillo on Phillips on Bush
The Cresson Affair
Compassion tourism
The Un-wild West
The Treaty of Westphalia
New shock: eating too much makes you fat
What is democracy?
Alsace
Can you privatise the army?
Vashti Bunyan and the 1960s
Germany was liberated too
New blog: Antoine Clarke's Election Watch
Croziervision quote of the day
Spot the difference…
Why will Bush win?
What about the losers?
Pet theory: why Bush will win
Are you a blubber?

Crozier's "10 Ways to Spot a Bogus Argument"…
Domestic bliss…
Michael Moore promotes freedom…
The secrets of socialist seduction
Let's all play…
Weird and wonderful optical illusion
Read Non-Trivial Solutions now

Music
UK Rock Hall of Fame - Channel Four

Panopticon
Don't be beastly to BT
Other news

UK Politics
Splits rock New Labour
Tony to become Tory?
A few years from now...
Worst government of the century
Democracy renewed?
How to be a minister
New Labour Dictionary
If libertarian ideas are so good how come they keep on getting rejected?
New blog: Antoine Clarke's Election Watch

Ulster
Heh, heh, heh

US v UK English
British or American English: which is best?
Sidewalk v Pavement
Round 2: Meet with v. Meet
US v UK English - an update
Round 3: Elevator v. Lift
If there is one thing worse...

War on Terrorism
Steyn: Invade now!
Other Stories
Other stories
Saddo - go for it!
Blog roundup
Torture
War
Blair in Action
Waiting...
A couple of extra sites
Command Post has moved...
Just look at this
Idiot of the Day
On being Anti-War
Do we have to take Baghdad?
Are you prepared to use nukes?
Actually that Luttwak article...
Who do you want to win the war?
Real Madrid v Manchester United
The MSS fan site
Censorship: what it is and what it isn't
A parlour game
The Colonel Collins saga
Quote of the day
Where have all the weapons gone?
Mark Steyn in Iraq
War on drugs kills 6 Brits
Oh shit
Steyn on the War on Terror
One thing I don't get about the search for WMD...
An audit of war
Mark Steyn in the Spectator
Useless Idiots II
This isn't about Blair's future. It is much more serious
The Treaty of Westphalia
Saddam “didn’t understand international relations perfectly”
That spiked Steyn article

Welfare
Croziervision quote of the day

Words and a loon
Brazil 2 England 1
The newspaper is dead
Football's Aristocracy
The news from Japan
The Message is getting out there
What should Britons think about the American Revolution?
Microsoft
Don't be beastly to BT
Marvellous article by Matthew Parris.
Gallipoli
Rageh Omaar live from Baghdad
Standards have dropped
Do we need a police force?
Why Big Brother will never
Why are modern houses so bad?
Modern houses - Update #1
Modern houses - Update #2
Modern Houses - Update #3
Up with Monarchy, down with Democracy
Why do poor people breed?
Things I've noticed
Time for Currency Restoration
Anti-war man wins footpath fight
Clarke attacks Duncan Smith
Cowardice