Targets *do* produce better healthcare outcomes

Best Glossary Ever

I found this lurking in one of my outboxes, and though it deserved an airing:
In the course of a single Crooked Timber thread, I seem to have come worryingly close to defending both genocide and forced child marriage
More than usual, please read the rest…

Blogger Lenin has some impartial [*] words on the future for the Caucasus after the current willy-waving:
a new Brzezinski-advised Obama administration would certainly focus far more intently on shoring up US power in Central Asia than continuing to fight the lost battle in Iraq.
It’s what we should have been doing for the last 15 years; [...]

A rather jolly piece of satire from Mr Monbiot

Violent crime down again; idiots ignore facts again; film at 11

Finest headline ever, assuming you’re a bad pun fan

Almost unbelievable photoshop racism from the Scum

Lolcameron. I’m in ur psyche, coding ur racism…

The truth about knife crime - not something you’ll read in the Independent or the Daily Mail

Are the media’s lies that crime is rising just ignorant and stupid, or could they be something a little more sinister?

Why are the Lib Dems bothering to oppose Labour, when the Tories are the real enemy?

What’s your personal inflation rate?

“On [the internet] if someone gets up with a hangover after drinking 8 pints, the blame lies with the goverment and Gordon Brown” - commenter Eatonrifle on HYS