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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).
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Continue reading →: 2010 kicks off
Last night Mrs P., her mother and I were celebrating New Year’s Eve at a Cheshire restaurant. In the small crowd, one couple stood out. They were sitting at the next table. She was at least thirty years older than the man she was with; mutton dressed as a twinkle…
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Continue reading →: An English New Year’s Eve tradition, but not in England
YouTube – Dinner for one. I was intrigued to learn today (h/t Omnium) that an obscure English sketch was (a) one of the first pieces ever recorded to videotape by German television and is (b) an intrinsic part of the New Year's Eve tradition in the German-speaking world. According to…
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Continue reading →: The Dishonoured List
No place for MPs and bankers in unflashy New Year honours list | UK news | The Guardian. I have long believed that the system of "honours" is at the heart of British Establishment corruption. Of course, there is nothing intrinsically wrong about honouring lifetime achievement or social contribution. There…
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Continue reading →: Smoking doublethink
No smoking prison sparks drop in crime – Telegraph. As Dick Puddlecote points out, the media can't have it both ways. If a smoking ban can reduce the number of people going to jail, it can also reduce the number going to the pub. Personally, I give the story…
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Continue reading →: Britblog Roundup 253
Britblog Roundup #253 « Amused Cynicism. The last Britblog Roundup of 2009 is up at Amused Cynicism. It's an interesting selection. Enjoy.
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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