28.3.05

Starting Revolutions

Sometimes I wonder whether it is not time to give up all this academic business and go off to start a revolution (I think The Activist is already planning this). For me, such moments are rare (though I do have plans of becoming a despot on a tropical island someday) but news like this doesn't help:

The Duke of Westminster, reputedly the richest person in the UK, received £448,000 (about US$ 850,000) in European farming subsidies in 2003-4, under the Common Agricultural Policy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4374655.stm

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