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Continue reading →: You know when you’ve been Gordo’ed
Gordon Brown accused of throwing a tangerine – Telegraph. I guess it makes a change from throwing his Orange. I wonder if the colleague he shouted at for handing him the tangerine (presumably on the basis that he should have known not to give him a projectile) was the…
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Continue reading →: A work of fiction
Once upon a time many years ago, young Gemima worked for a British logistics company. Some employees working overseas found themselves stranded by circumstances beyond their control. They were driving a convoy of trucks carrying crates of foodstuffs but were stuck in a remote and barren spot. They were neither…
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Continue reading →: Prescott at Bay
Iain Dale's Diary: How to Cope With a Bullying Prescott. Mr Dale needs no links from a blogging minnow such as me, but it's quicker than a hat tip. Mary Ann Sieghart's column delighted me more than I can say, because (in response to an ill-judged breach of "off the…
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Continue reading →: In which Tom almost becomes an anarchist
Colin Ward obituary | Society | The Guardian. I love Guardian obituaries. Usually, they are fascinating accounts of the reassuringly wasted lives of leftist eccentrics. I derive great pleasure from noting the damage deceased Guardian-reading busybodies entirely failed to do in the course of their pointless lives of bickering and…
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Continue reading →: Who could doubt Lord Mandelson’s word?
BBC News – Mandelson denies Brown 'bullying' claims. I am sure the PM can afford his own legal advice, but let me break a professional habit and offer some for free. If the allegations published in today's Observer are untrue, as both he and Lord Mandelson have now said, he…
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Continue reading →: King had a dream, but blacks now face a nightmare
American Thinker: King had a dream, but blacks now face a nightmare The linked article is sad and touching. When will the minority groups in British society come to the same realisation? Their hopes and dreams have been ruthlessly exploited by the Left in exactly the same way – and…
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Continue reading →: A riddle
A young man graduates from an Oxbridge college. Left-wing in outlook, he advises all his fellow-graduates that they should become teachers in state schools in order to "put something back into society" by way of compensation for their "privileged backgrounds." The young man himself comes from a family that owns…
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Continue reading →: What’s wrong with state education
'The school's chances were snatched away' – Telegraph. A member of the Labour Party explains… The linked article is well worth a read. I am still pondering why, having resigned as a school governor, Joanna Leapman does not also resign from the party that bears most of the blame for…
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Continue reading →: The thick and thin red lines
When the next bomb goes off in London, blame the judges – Telegraph Blogs. Con Coughlin should be ashamed of himself. The linked article would be unworthy of the Daily Mail, let alone the Daily Telegraph. However much Binyam Mohammed's claim to have been an innocent back-packer in Afghanistan may…
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Continue reading →: Why Britain should declare war on Jersey | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian
Why Britain should declare war on Jersey | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian. Mark Thomas is joking of course, but the joke makes no sense unless you believe that companies relocating to Jersey would be forced to stay in Britain if the option were removed. Other…
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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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