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Continue reading →: Predictive messaging, the curse of the careless
Mrs P. loves her iPhone, but hates predictive messaging. She has too quick a trigger finger for the "send" button, which has led to some confusion amongst her correspondents. None quite as good as this gem, however. h/t The Daily What
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Continue reading →: It was 20 years ago today
Margaret Thatcher: My tears for the iron lady – Telegraph. The mess we are in began 20 years ago today. Margaret Thatcher had fired a large enough group of "wets" that – clinging together in their mediocrity – even they felt brave enough to take her on. I was at…
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Continue reading →: The state can do no wrong
The naked truth: TSA can touch my junk anytime | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Of course (except in the eyes of Guardian journalists) it can and often does. In some fields in fact, it does little else. But if it wants to do something that would be wrong for…
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Continue reading →: The View From….2007
The View From…Moscow at Conservatives Abroad : The View From…. The past is another country. Back in 2007, living in Moscow, I was persuaded to contribute the linked piece to the Conservatives Abroad website. I guess I had still not fully accepted at that point that I was no longer…
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Continue reading →: Don’t ever park illegally in Scotland
click to enlarge. h/t a Scottish friend in Shanghai
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Continue reading →: I’m ‘Enery the Eighth I am
Concern over use of 'Henry Vlll' powers to overturn acts of parliament | The Law Gazette. It's time for every liberty-minded blogger who has retired, jaded, after the fall of Labour to return to the fray. Why? Because, in the words of Joshua Rozenberg in the Law Society Gazette last…
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Continue reading →: Apple, cored.
Apple vs Apple: long-running legal dispute delayed Beatle's iTunes deal – Telegraph. So Apple, Inc. (fka Apple Computer, Inc.) now owns the wittily-named Apple Corps – the Beatles' corporate vehicle. The computer/media company paid $500 million for the privilege, confirming once more the insanity of Macca's choice to remain a…
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Continue reading →: Pigs flying at the expense of others
To paraphrase the words of a wiser politician than any we have today, no-one would remember the Good Samaritan, for all his kind intent, if he had had no money. Economically our society must be, to use a fine old word in danger of losing its meaning, sustainable. It's worrying,…
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Continue reading →: Old news about the Devil
The Devil's Knife: Sound The Last Post…?. You will already know that former chairman of the UK's Libertarian Party, Chris Mounsey has announced an end to his blog, The Devil's Knife (formerly known as The Devil's Kitchen). Regular readers may wonder why I didn't immediately join the chorus of pleas…
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Continue reading →: That Twitter crime wave. Who is to blame?
Twitter anger over airport conviction – Crime, UK – The Independent There is much anger about the ludicrous conviction (recently upheld on appeal) of Twitter user Paul Chambers. Frustrated at the prospect of not being able to fly to meet a girlfriend, he tweeted (with clear comedic intent):- Crap! Robin…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
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