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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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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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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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