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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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Continue reading →: Equality does not equal fairness
The Spirit Level Delusion: Fact-checking the Left's New Theory of Everything: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher John Snowdon: Books. I am reading Christopher Snowden's book, The Spirit Level Delusion, which sets out to rebut – graph by graph, statistic by statistic – the thesis of Wilkinson and Pickett's work The Spirit Level. These…
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Continue reading →: The terrorists who work for us
Air cargo bombs: Controlled reaction | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian. No-one rose to the bait of my smoking, helmetless, biking babies post. It's a shame, as I was looking forward to reading libertarian responses to a baby being taught to smoke, or being taken motorbike riding…
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Continue reading →: Another one bites the dust
Mr Eugenides: The last post. I was in a good mood this morning. The sun is shining, there's a day of rest ahead, and Mrs P. (who was very ill this week) is chirpy again. Mr Eugenides has spoiled it. The Devil (who has the pleasure to know him personally)…
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Continue reading →: Smoking on motorbikes
Continuing my theme of distentangling honest-to-Stalin Leftism from good old-fashioned British Puritanism, I was looking for an image to illustrate something Mrs P. and I noticed yesterday. Out on the town in Shanghai, we saw many motorcyclists riding (legally) without helmets and smoking en route. Oddly enough, I couldn't find…
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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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