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Continue reading →: The first of many eBay listings?
BRIBO Laptop (270,000 available) with instruction sheet on eBay (end time 21-Jan-10 20:37:11 GMT)
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Continue reading →: There is no scope for public spending cuts (continued)
Ed Balls accused of wasting £1bn on red tape | Education | guardian.co.uk. £1.1 billion could be saved, say the Liberal Democrats, by scrapping Ed Balls' Children, Schools and Families Bill. This piece of draft legislation has the remarkable distinction of threatening to introduce a regulation (namely a licence to…
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Continue reading →: There is no scope for public spending cuts
Welcome to Love Chips!. Of course there isn't. Not when the state provides such essential services as this. h/t Old Holborn.
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Continue reading →: Another step toward the abyss
Heathrow robbery trial breaks with 400-year tradition of trial by jury | UK news | The Guardian. I despair. The right to trial by jury has protected Englishmen from an over-mighty state since long before democracy was born. Combined with the Great Writ of habeas corpus, it meant you could…
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Continue reading →: Criminal dissent?
– Bishop Hill blog – ++++Statement from Norfolk Police++++. It seems the debate on climate change really is over. Tasked with investigating the breach of security at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ("climategate") the Norfolk Constabulary has involved "officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team." As GOT explains,…
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Continue reading →: Blogging light while blogger in flight
The hols are over and it's back to work, beginning with 20 hours in a couple of these "offices." Normal service will resume in a day or so.
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Continue reading →: As right honourably hung for a sheep as a lamb?
MPs facing police over expenses look to ancient Bill of Rights for protection – Telegraph. Their distinguished counsel will, I am sure, have told them this is a long shot. They have nothing to lose in running it though. Certainly not the respect of the electorate. Perhaps they even have…
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Continue reading →: What a libertarian society might look like
SUBROSA: Kindness. Read the left-wing blogs and you will be struck by the strangeness of their ideas about libertarianism. They assume for example that because libertarians are concerned about the corrosive effects of welfarism, we are cold and heartless. For example, here is "Flying Rodent" commenting recently on this post…
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Continue reading →: “Hate speech” is ok, if it’s right on
Why is the Left so obsessed with “hate speech” and “hate crime?” If I am injured, I want justice, whether my attacker was motivated by hate or merely indifferent to my plight. If my goods are stolen, I don’t care if the thief was driven by envy, hatred or greed.…
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Continue reading →: The Government can
Why don't we have political satire like this? God bless America (h/t Dick Puddlecote).
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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