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Continue reading →: The Guardian gets it, at last
Hideously diverse Britain: School success – the Chinese way | UK news | The Guardian. Whenever anyone told us that certain ethnic groups do badly in school because of discrimination, my wife and I asked (based on her experiences teaching in state schools) "…if teachers are conventionally racist, why do…
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Continue reading →: Compulsory debt?
Penalty for graduates who pay off student loans early – Telegraph. This government is so much in love with debt that it wants to impose an early-redemption penalty on students who pay off their loans before they are due. That's bad enough but it's not a new idea. Long-term lenders…
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Continue reading →: How real Leftists approach alcohol
Mrs P. and I ventured out for an afternoon stroll and ended up at a bar. Sitting under a canopy outside on a warm, rainy evening, we did some people-watching here in the Peoples' Republic. It was all very enjoyable, despite being surrounded by (gasp!) smokers. Picking up the drinks…
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Continue reading →: Hard cases and bad law?
Divorce laws should not be made by the grotesquely rich | Catherine Bennett | Comment is free | The Observer. Pace Catherine Dorothea Bennett, Oxford grad., former Baroness Sackville and current squeeze of by-no-means-short-of-a-bob-or-two John Humphreys, laws are not made by those who are ("grotesquely" or otherwise) rich. In England…
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Continue reading →: Now, about that £81bn…
About that £81bn. I have been rattling on here and elsewhere about how the government is unable to do what is required to public spending because – post Labour – the payroll vote is electorally decisive. Perhaps I am wrong. If the linked post at the Adam Smith Institute is…
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Continue reading →: So much for machismo
Student becomes new police chief in Mexican town | World news | guardian.co.uk.
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Continue reading →: Why Labour doesn’t need a financially literate Shadow Chancellor
Tax Research UK » Labour did not create the recession. Tim Worstall needs no help from me in debunking Richard Murphy. He does so patiently, day after day. Today he didn't even need to comment; he just linked to Murphy's student union grade guff. My own comment at Murphy's blog…
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Continue reading →: Anyone but Murray? Not today.
Mrs P. and I had a pleasant time at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center today. On a beautfully sunny afternoon, we watched Melzer and Paes narrowly defeat Fyrtenberg and Matki in the final of the Shanghai Rolex Masters doubles competition. Then in the late afternoon/early evening, we watched Andy Murray…
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Continue reading →: Katharine Birbalsingh forced to resign?
Cranmer: Katharine Birbalsingh forced to resign from Church of England Academy. Here is another test for the Slightly Less Left coalition to fail. Are teachers free to have and to express non-Left political views or not? If it is true that Ms Birbalshingh has been forced to resign, then the…
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Continue reading →: Cancer in the wild
An Englishman's Castle: Cancer in the wild. I do admire the way the Englishman thinks, not to mention the economy with which he expresses himself. I do not admire those English academics who reach distressing conclusions that one intelligent farmer plus Google can refute so quickly and so deftly.
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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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