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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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Continue reading →: What Leg-iron said, with knobs on…
underdogs bite upwards: Calling England.. Happy St. George’s Day. Don’t forget Shakespeare’s birthday too. If you can’t be proud of anything else, you can be proud England produced him. Like so much of our historical contribution (not least the language he shaped more any other man ever shaped a language)…
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Continue reading →: The Same Difference?
BBC News – Election 2010: Gloves off in second leaders' debate. It's odd to watch an election from this distance. It seems a little like a magic trick. The performers are focussing our attention on one thing, while the real action goes unnoticed. As voters peer and struggle to discern…
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Continue reading →: No need to blog today…
underdogs bite upwards: When God flicked his cigarette…. Why bother when Leg-iron is on such form over at underdogs bite upwards? Here he is on the cowardice of the past few days. Observing that planes flew when scare-mongers (yes, we had them then but we laughed at them) told us…
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Continue reading →: Turkey/Christmas interface
Labour has politicised the management of the police and subverted the charitable sector to its political ends. Want evidence? You can find it here and here (both in Labour's Pravda of course). Public servants should stay out of politics. Elections are for them just like a board meeting where directors…
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Continue reading →: Cameron automated. Isn’t tech marvelous?
Who has David Cameron been talking to?. What a useful public service. Just refresh the linked page to get anecdote after Cameron anecdote and all about as accurate as the original. (h/t Crazy Elmont) Now you don't need to watch the next debate. Too negative a view? Well it is…
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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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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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
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