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Continue reading →: A businessman writes…
FT.com / Columnists / Luke Johnson – Why I have signed up to political change. Business in Britain has played along with Labour. It has had little choice as more and more of the economy came under state control. Many businesses developed a strategy of "liberating" as much money as…
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Continue reading →: Andrew Neil slays the Devil
The Devil's Knife: The Devil is dead…. The Devil's Kitchen blog became part of my life in recent years. DK's elegant, foul-mouthed rants were often hilarious . He said things I would never say and conjured images I found quite disturbing at times but always with wit and a sense…
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Continue reading →: I was wrong?
I recently blogged that "In the General Election campaign, no mainstream party is talking about debt reduction." Today I read the new Conservative manifesto and there, on the first page, are these words: Today the challenges facing Britain are immense. Our economy is overwhelmed by debt, our social fabric is…
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Continue reading →: The true scale of our problem
Map Of The Day: Awesome Visualization Of Global Debt Levels. (click to enlarge) In the General Election campaign, no mainstream party is talking about debt reduction. They only speak (unconvincingly) of reducing the deficit (i.e. the rate at which we are going into debt). We are falling off a cliff…
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Continue reading →: Todays’ test
Top comprehensives 'more socially exclusive than grammar schools' | Education | The Guardian. 1. An actual lottery is a fairer way of choosing which school a child attends than the lottery of which family it is born into. Discuss. 2. Parents who care about their children's education will, if their…
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Continue reading →: We will trust them when they deserve it.
Society needs institutional anchorage | Antony Lerman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Antony Lerman's conclusion that politicians must "empower" citizens is somewhat irritating. From where, if not from us, does he think he they derive their powers? If they want to "empower" us, why don't they simply stop taking…
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Continue reading →: Proszę przyjąć moje najszczersze kondolencje
President of Poland Killed in Plane Crash in Russia – NYTimes.com. My daughters grew up in Poland. Our family lived in Warsaw for 11 years until we moved to Russia in 2003. I have great affection for the country and am proud to number many Poles among my friends. To…
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Continue reading →: Erasing David
Erasing David. Some more intemperate readers may hope the link refers to the leadership of the Conservative Party. Sorry, chaps. It's the title of a new documentary film. As the film makers' publicity puts it: David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He…
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Continue reading →: Election chill
The election campaign already leaves me cold, because I can imagine no outcome that will make our country better. Three packs of wolves have fallen on our unfortunate fold. Does it matter which way we run? The fact that it's likely to be close should at least be piquing my…
THE LAST DITCH
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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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