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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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Continue reading →: If guns are unnecessary, how come our rulers are surrounded by armed police?
He stepped out of the dark with a gun… | Victoria Coren | Comment is free | The Observer. Victoria Coren is upset that there are too many guns on our streets. Surprisingly, for someone writing in the Observer, the guns she is concerned about are those in the hands…
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Continue reading →: “I had no in-service training”
A man surely does not need "in-service" training to know right from wrong. Or does he? This film is a metaphorical bathyscape from which to peer out in wonderment at the depths of human stupidity. Hard though it will be for anyone capable of reading this post to imagine, such…
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Continue reading →: So much for free movement of goods and labour
FT.com / Europe – Poles returning home face car trouble. As a lover of Poland who lived there for 11 years, I know something about this story. I used to have a right-hand drive car in Warsaw. I drove it from England in 1992 and used it for 8 of…
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Continue reading →: An airship captain writes…
Lost generation | Andrew Hankinson | Money | The Observer. Andrew Hankinson's article blends common sense, fantasy and bitterness. His central point is one I have often made myself; that the two post-war generations in Britain have been guilty – via an underfunded "national insurance" system – of time travel…
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Continue reading →: Does the internet show who we really are?
This TED talk makes the audience (and the speaker) laugh at times. They are so conditioned to the statist view of humanity as evil, that its manifold examples of voluntary cooperation seen naive to them. As I listened to "social theorist" Jonathan Zittrain's interesting speech, the thought that came to…
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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