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Continue reading →: Keynes vs Hayek: the rap
I enjoyed this so much that I must post it, even at the cost of a reluctant link by way of acknowledgement to a Labour loyalist who, when the leg-irons are finally clamped on him, will be grateful for the fact that they are free at point of use.
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Continue reading →: Bloggers; take the day off
underdogs bite upwards: So many queens If you are conservative, old-school liberal, or libertarian spare yourself the trouble of trawling the blogs today. If you are a blogger of that persuasion, spare yourself the trouble of posting. Just link, as I have, to today's post on Underdogs Bite Upwards. Leg-iron…
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Continue reading →: It’s not working. Let’s do it more!
BBC News – Rich-poor divide 'wider than 40 years ago' This doesn't surprise me. The portrayal of the Thatcherite times of my youth by the left-wing establishment has long been ridiculous. It's amusing that it takes such statistics to give the lie to their distortion of history. It's more than…
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Continue reading →: Go on then. You explain it
Hutton inquiry closed David Kelly medical reports for 70 years | Politics | The Guardian. I have resisted speculating about the death of Dr David Kelly. Largely because I am generally a sceptic when it comes to conspiracy theories. If I ever find myself considering one, I am usually put…
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Continue reading →: The campaign against people’s justice continues…
Is the internet destroying juries? | UK news | The Guardian. This is a frothy enough piece for the po-faced Guardian. But it's another foul-smelling drip in an insidious campaign to erode confidence in jury trial. It has all the Guardian's most odious characteristics; purported concern for the little guy,…
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Continue reading →: Sharing the pain
Burning our money: You Don't Say. Wat Tyler proves yet again that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Continue reading →: A tragedy in one act
Edlington case is symptom of 'broken society', says David Cameron | UK news | guardian.co.uk The local authority began this drama by apologising for its failings. This was both a political statement and an exoneration of every other human being who touched the lives of the young sadists' family. If…
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Continue reading →: Labour; the elite of hypocrisy
Top professions must be less elitist, warn ministers | Society | The Observer. Once again the oaf Milburn is lecturing the professions on elitism. Once again, I tell him there were more state educated lawyers in firms like mine when I first entered the legal profession than now, 26 years…
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Continue reading →: An afternoon walk in Shanghai
It's nice and cold (though not by Moscow standards!) Good walking weather so I began to explore my new home. If you think Oxford Street at Christmas is crowded, you would not like Shanghai. I began to get claustrophobic at being in such constant physical contact. Or is that just…
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Continue reading →: Does The Guardian know the truth?
Charlotte Raven: Should I take my own life? | Society | The Guardian. The linked article in The Guardian is a very sad piece. The author has Huntington's, an incurable degenerative disease perhaps best know for afflicting the character Dr Remy "Thirteen" Hadley in the wonderful American TV drama "House".…
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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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