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Continue reading →: Two brilliant posts (and neither by me, damn it all)
JuliaM, the AmbushPredator, has a tie for her "post of the month". The first she has selected is from They're Joking, Aren't They? (with the wonderful strapline, "What are our rulers thinking of? And with?"). The second is from Winston Smith. Kudos to both of them, and a tip of…
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Continue reading →: Speaking ill of the dead
The eulogies for the late Senator from Massachusetts are disgusting. It makes me sick to read the constant refrain of "the liberal lion." A lion is a noble, courageous beast. Kennedy was a beast, certainly, but neither noble nor courageous. That leftists and liberals admire this coward speaks volumes about…
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Continue reading →: Fiona Bruce has no problem with “lookism”
BBC's Fiona Bruce: 'If you look like the back end of a bus, you won't get the job' – Telegraph. That's big of her. I would have no problem if there was suddenly a demand for tall, overweight, middle-aged TV presenters either. Unfortunately, it's harder to get the people who…
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Continue reading →: Those of a Guardian disposition, move along. Nothing to see here.
Jeremy Clarkson Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder review | Driving – Times Online. Jeremy Clarkson is a hate figure of the Left. Read the linked article to find out why. Here's a short sample to give you a flavour; It was, I think, the most enjoyable drive of my life: to…
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Continue reading →: Cowards flinch and traitors sneer
Worrying reading – Frank Field MP. It's hard to believe that the most sensible words I can find written today – in blogosphere or msm – are from a Labour MP. "Worrying reading" indeed. Yet a Conservative opposition strongly positioned in the opinion polls still lacks the courage to state…
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Continue reading →: How dare she oppose the state?
Solicitor faces being struck off after fighting councils' care cuts – Telegraph. A fellow-solicitor faces a charge of "bringing the profession into disrepute" because she helped clients campaign againts council policies. I suspect Ms Hossack is not of my political persuasion. Nonetheless, from this article I suspect she has rather…
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Continue reading →: MoD ‘missing’ £6.6bn of hardware
FT.com / UK – MoD ‘missing’ £6.6bn of hardware In answering a comment recently I wrote that I would not trust the British government to clean my shoes, let alone be responsible for critical aspects of my healthcare. I pointed out what a bad job it did of running other…
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Continue reading →: Speech of the Year?
Theo Spark: Speech of the Year: Daniel Hannan Speaks at The Army and Navy Club, August 2009. Dan Hannan has been much traduced of late, not least by his own cowardly leader. I can only say that anyone of sense who watches these videos, will see his opponents for what…
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Continue reading →: Bra story
Bra story | Prachatai English. I have recently subscribed to Global Voices a feed of blog posts from around the world, translated into English. The linked article is a good example of the sort of thing to be found there; a gentle, informative, thought-provoking piece about factory workers in Thailand.…
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Continue reading →: That Top 20 list, in full
Well done to Constantly Furious for linking to all 20 of the top Libertarian Bloggers. He has requested that the other 19 do likewise and who am I to disoblige him? Here they are. I seem to have slipped another place, or perhaps I misread the list the first time.…
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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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