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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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Continue reading →: Literacy on the streets of Vancouver
The message is correct and polite. There are no childish symbols, because you are assumed to be literate. In this case, there is an easy expectation that you know what an "expansion joint" is. I get simple pleasure from North American signage. I do wonder why the sign is so…
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Continue reading →: You know how to whistle, don’t you?
Whistle | Whistle. I don't know who these people are or anything about their motivations, but they seem to have the germ of a good idea, which they describe as; a website that offers a 'one stop shop' for political information, advocacy and debate My only worry is that, in…
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Continue reading →: Of reproduction and incentives
What do I think about higher rate taxpayers losing child benefits? I think it's a start. Having or not having children is a personal choice. The government has no legitimate role in the matter, whether brandishing sticks or carrots. Successive governments have encouraged us to breed, however, merely in an…
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Continue reading →: Vancouver
I have been wearing a groove between certain exotic places for some time and it's been a while since I visited a new city. This one has that eerie instant familiarity of all cities founded or influenced by our energetic ancestors, but the fun is always in finding what differentiates…
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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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