Canute the Great
Prince Charles Sees Bison In Poland
Charles gave a speech praising the historical links between Britain and Poland, mentioning the half-Polish King Canute, who ruled England in the 11th century as well as the Polish pilots...
Prince Charles views Polish bison, without Camilla
Charles gave a speech praising the historical links between Britain and Poland, mentioning the half-Polish King Canute, who ruled England in the 11th century as well as the Polish pilots...
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LibDem rank-and-file make emergency motion for net freedom
...'anachronism', 'ineffective', and 'unethical'. All we have to do is wait for the tide to come in and then King Canute can say "Told you so!". Speech is free, but Boing Boing is...
Krauthammer's Take -- By: NRO Staff
...of the government acting." I think there is great fiction in our politics that the presidents command the economy like King Canute and the tides. This is a $15 trillion economy.
Currie: I had op to look a dish at work
...John was too sensible to try to turn back time like some cosmetically enhanced King Canute. As a grandmother and great-grandmother I have to tell him, Forget running repairs and accept...
Cue the panic
...it were only a question of trying to curb CDS and short selling you would give them about as much chance as King Canute. However, since the Pittsburgh G20 summit there has been growing...
David Brennan: Selling pharma's bitter pills
...feature of the industry, Mr Brennan denies AstraZeneca's defence of its patents in the courts is akin to King Canute trying to stop the tide. "You see us in court when we are...
Coal emissions: the burning issue Tim Yeo
...the cycle of rain, evaporation, cloud formation, rain ? A somewhat ambitious programme. Brings to mind King Canute. 24 Feb 2010, 9:09PM neilmac1921: "Water vapour is a...
DVDs of films to be sold 3 months after cinema release
...cinema chains, but they have got to accept that the internet has changed everything. They are behaving like King Canute. "The evidence suggests that when consumers get access to legal...
Solving currency crisis is all Greek to EU
...available betrayed a lack of understanding of market forces. Had the EU been around at the time of King Canute, it would have issued a directive to the sea to stop coming in. Could...
The current Greek crisis is merely act one of a much wider tragedy
...be made available betrayed a lack of understanding of market forces. Had the EU been around at the time of King Canute, I am sure it would have issued a directive to the sea to stop it...
Manchester United fans ready to make club ownership key issue of General Election
...chose to dismiss the fans' movement as a gentle, unthreatening wave of dissent risk being caught out like King Canute. Fans' anger over leveraged debt, the increasing sophistication of...
