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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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Continue reading →: The coalition’s most important test
Control orders for terrorist suspects to stay, says counter-terrorism review | UK news | The Guardian. Much can be learned from the way in which Vikram Dodd, crime correspondent of the Guardian, explains the concept of "control orders;" "…Nine British citizens or residents are currently subject to the orders which…
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Continue reading →: Farewell, Anna Raccoon
GrumpyOldTwat: The Final Words Of Anna Raccoon. I shall miss Anna Raccoon. She was a good un. I hope she will be happy out there in the real world. But I also wish she would fix all the links to her by putting her deceased blog back up…
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Continue reading →: This is a respectable family blog, but…
Студентки МГУ разделись для В.Путина :: Фоторепортажи :: Top.rbc.ru. Those of you who have been reading about the Moscow University journalism students' birthday tribute to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin may be curious to see the calendar concerned (link above). While I do miss Russia a lot, you can imagine that it's…
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Continue reading →: Why I don’t take advertising
I Hate Ryanair. Actually, I have turned down the very occasional offers of advertising here because I can't be bothered to complicate my tax return for the trivial sums involved. However, I also felt that to make money from my blog might somehow compromise the opinions expressed. The decision of…
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Continue reading →: That Google Robot Car
Google Robot Car: The Future of Cruise Control, Convoys, Car-Sharing – The Daily Beast. Forget politics for a while. This is the best news ever. Google has developed a way to get all those tedious people who don't like driving off the road. Or at least into the passenger seat…
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Continue reading →: Equality -vs- Justice
Cranmer: ‘Blairite’ Headteacher with damning Ofsted inspection publicly rebukes her Tory deputy. The wrath of His Grace Archbishop Cranmer is as hot as his departure from this life. And rightly so. The Labour Party Conference consists of little else but one Marxist teacher after another expressing extreme political views about…
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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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