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Continue reading →: A picture worth a thousand words
this isn't happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr. I had to steal this picture. Sorry Peter. Please accept it as a compliment. It symbolises the political blogosphere perfectly. And our theme song should perhaps be this:-
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Continue reading →: Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel’s as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion
General election 2010: How the eyes of the world see a very British contest | From the Observer | The Observer. I approach The Guardian daily in the spirit of Don Vito Corleone; keeping my friends close, but my enemies closer. The linked article, however, struck a chord. A regular…
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Continue reading →: The quote (and the smear) of the campaign
Secret Christian donors bankroll Tories | World news | The Observer. The Labour Party was once a movement of muscular Christians. Now it's a smear to report that Christians have donated to their opponents. Since all the major donations are public (no real journalism was therefore required to research the…
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Continue reading →: The Dog That Didn’t Bark
The Magistrate's Blog: The Dog That Didn't Bark In The Night. I rarely agree with Bystander at The Magistrate's Blog. He has those moral calluses that policemen, magistrates and judges acquire from long labour at the coal face of justice. He tends to see everyone as a potential offender and…
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Continue reading →: The blame shifters
Gordon Brown 'penitent' after bigot gaffe torpedoes election campaign | Politics | The Guardian. Gordon Brown is the right man to lead the Labour Party. He personifies its spirit of malicious irresponsibility. A true Labour person is someone for whom every problem is another's fault. Labour's scapegoats march in massed…
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Continue reading →: Iain Dale is not a Conservative
Iain Dale's Diary: Good Riddance to Mr Lardner. There is no reason why a Conservative should not be homosexual or vice versa. A person's sexuality is politically irrelevant. So, per se, is a person's opinion about sexuality. So why are Iain Dale and Tory Rascal in such a tizz about…
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Continue reading →: Earth to UK. Earth to UK. Come in UK, are you receiving us?
General Election 2010: Nick Clegg's demand for NHS to be broken up | Mail Online. Has everyone in Britain been taken over by politically naieve aliens? Here we have an article in a "right wing" newspaper "smearing" a "centre left" politician for (unlike the leader of the allegedly "right wing"…
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Continue reading →: Context is everything
Visualizing Obama's budget cuts. [VIDEO]. That's just a screen shot and there's no way to embed the movie here, so please follow the link. The production values are not great, the presentation is amateurish and the one joke is lame, but it's a short movie you will be glad you…
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Continue reading →: Pot on kettle action at the BBC
Paxman on Cameron: “He’s a bit of a smooth b******, isn’t he?” – Telegraph. Cameron must be pleased with this. To be called a smooth bastard by the doyen of the British leftist media is quite a compliment.
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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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