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Continue reading →: Drawing a (dotted) line
Until the Great Writ of habeas corpus runs again in the land that conceived it; until the presumption of innocence applies once more and "suspect" means only what the dictionary says; until the right of silence applies again, I cannot promise not to write here. But a line has to…
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Continue reading →: £7bn of ‘outrageous’ databases will be scrapped
Clegg: £7bn worth of ‘outrageous’ databases will be scrapped – Public sector organisations – ComputerworldUK. As there was no true liberal option on offer at the General Election, I had to content myself with hoping that Labour would crash, burn and die horribly of its injuries. I was disappointed. If…
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Continue reading →: I have a new name for my pain
uknn: Now independent thinkers are considered diseased by psychiatry. I am suffering from "oppositional defiant disorder," apparently. But it could be worse. Children who exhibit unique eccentricities in accordance with their unique personalities, in general, would be categorized as having a mental illness. If this criteria had been used in…
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Continue reading →: Motoring peace, cease-fire or truce?
Coalition will "end war on the motorist", Transport Secretary pledges – Telegraph. This is a wonderful time for the optimist. New ministers set out their stalls in a positive light, saying the things we want to hear and – possibly – setting us up for disappointment. One reason I may…
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Continue reading →: Fixing broken Britain
Decades of "progressive" education have done terrible damage to British society. It's hard to imagine how that evil genie can ever be put back in the bottle and yet it's essential. If you doubt the scale of the task, compare and contrast.
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Continue reading →: Camera, Cameron, Cameraout
City of London security guards told to report 'suspicious' photographers | UK news | The Guardian. Under Labour's illiberal regime, cameras – ludicrously – became suspicious objects at the same time as they became ubiquitous. I always have at least three with me (two on mobile phones and one "real"…
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Continue reading →: For you, Mr Brown, the war is over…
This resignation is the real thing. Ding dong. Brown has been a low plotter and a vicious bully since his days in university politics. He is a man with a deluded sense of entitlement to power. The only open question is whether he has a warped moral sense or is…
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Continue reading →: Resigned to what?
Gordon Brown to resign: full text of his statement – Telegraph I read the reports of Gordon Brown's "resignation" this morning with some amusement. In business when we resign, we hand over our responsibilities and walk away. More often than not, the "resignation" is a polite fiction to conceal that…
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Continue reading →: Scotland vs England
Election 2010: Scotland saw through the English public schoolboys | UK news | guardian.co.uk. The BNP is on the wane, but its spirit lives in Scotland. We knew the Scots were not fond of us, but who knew it was this bad? McKenna's piece is probably criminal, given the extent…
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Continue reading →: What have we learned?
Have we learned much from this election? We already knew that, for most people, voting is about fear of worse not hope for better. We already knew that – for all the election time flattery about the wisdom of the people – most voters are political and economic imbeciles. We…
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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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