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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…
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Continue reading →: £404,000,000,000 stolen
Climate Change Act: Now the world faces its biggest ever bill – Telegraph. The important point in this story is that our Parliament enacted a law without knowing it would cost £404 billion. Come to think of it there's another important point; our journalists are so lame that the said…
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Continue reading →: Breaking news from the planet Zog…
Industrial action 'real risk' under Tory government, warns TUC general secretary | Politics | The Guardian. "The nobility, united, shall never be defeated!" In my exclusively private sector world of late, friends have lost their jobs or their businesses; some at a time of life when it will be hard…
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Continue reading →: We are all Russians today
Female suicide bombers kill 37 in Moscow metro | World | Reuters. I am waiting for news* and desperately hoping none of my Russian colleagues is among the innocents murdered today in Moscow. No cause justifies such actions. As a nation that endured a terror campaign for decades, we British…
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Continue reading →: The end of days?
Intercepting mail is worthy of the Stasi | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. If the polls are to be believed, a lethal proportion of our fellow-citizens remains willing to vote Labour in a few weeks time. This, despite all the evidence of the terrible damage that Labour…
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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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