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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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Continue reading →: £1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of this man and his accomplices
£1,000 Reward Offered for Extinguisher Thugs – Guy Fawkes' blog. Libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes is living up to the "order-order" bit of his blog's URL by offering a £1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those involved in throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of…
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Continue reading →: Man enough for the job?
Stafford Hospital scandal: former boss claims he's a victim too – Telegraph. Until the enquiry ends I don't know if he was to blame, but he was certainly meant to be responsible. That he shelters now behind claims of post-traumatic stress disorder (usually acquired on a battlefield, not in an…
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Continue reading →: An old profession vs a former profession
Teacher with double life as a prostitute allowed to carry on teaching – Telegraph. Well it could have been worse, couldn't it?
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Continue reading →: Call them fees. Call them taxes. Call them bananas, if you like.
Scrap tuition fees? Yes we have | John Hemming | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Had this proposed new system applied when I was 17, I doubt I would have been the first member of my family to go to university. As my life has turned out, that would probably…
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Continue reading →: Someone please rescue Henry Porter
The freedom bill will mean nothing if we keep repressive measures like control orders | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer . How can Henry Porter, sound as a pre-Labour pound on liberty, write for that authoritarian rag, the Observer? In the linked article, he explains again…
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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.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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