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Continue reading →: Coming soon….
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Continue reading →: Nick Clegg is un-English
I watched Andrew Marr interview the leader of the illiberal non-democrats this morning. I believe his name is Clegg. He seems very representative of his pernicious party. Distinguishing the LibDems from the Tories on civil liberties, he said indignantly that the Tories wanted to abolish the Human Rights Act, calling…
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Continue reading →: New Statesman loses argument, conceals evidence
New Statesman – Tory racism: crystal clear. The link above is to one of many preserved copies on the web (courtesy of Alessandre Bieri) of James Macintyre's notorious New Statesman article accusing the Conservative Party of being institutionally racist. It is a refreshing, rare example of a conclusive outcome to…
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Continue reading →: Personal tutors, paid for by the International Monetary Fund?
Ed Balls: personal tutors for 300,000 pupils – Telegraph. Does Mr Balls even read the papers?
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Continue reading →: A proper sense of priorities
American Thinker: Community service is not what made America great. Reading the Institute of Directors' journal over lunch today my heart began to sink. Almost every story seemed to reference "social enterprise," companies' "green credentials" or "corporate social responsibility." Our "educators," the media and the luvvies of the art world…
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Continue reading →: Socialists redacting history (at the taxpayers’ expense)
Margaret Thatcher airbrushed from Harriet Harman's history of women in politics – Telegraph. The most significant elected woman in British political history does not merit a name check in an "Equality Office" taxpayer-financed propaganda sheet paper called "Women in Power: Milestones." Doesn't this tell you all you need to know…
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Continue reading →: Old Tom’s Destiny…
…is to be claimed by right and left. It’s always idiocy, of course, to judge a historical figure’s views by the standards of today. He had ideas about social security and land tax, which might not have worked out as well as his ideas about liberty, but he hated tyranny…
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Continue reading →: If it’s the right thing, why don’ t they tell the families?
One in four relatives 'not told when doctors place patient on controversial death pathway' – Telegraph. My title seems a fair question to me. Concealing an action suggests (but I agree does not prove) that one feels it's wrong. More scarily; The audit also found that more than one in…
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Continue reading →: The truth is out there (preceded by “not”)
BBC NEWS | UK | Paedophile checks scheme defended. The British state says that 11 million people must be certified and logged by a state authority before they can safely be allowed to give their children's friends a lift to the swimming pool. This is as offensive (and revealing) a…
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Continue reading →: British values – just what are they?
This is a guest post by renowned blogger James Higham and is cross-posted at his usual home: Nourishing Obscurity. There’s an interesting group called Nothing British and the words I liked in their blurb were: We believe in addressing the concerns of those people who feel alienated from their society…
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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