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Continue reading →: Britblog Roundup 229
Britblog Roundup 229: The Bumper Office Moving Edition | The Wardman Wire.Click on the title to innoculate yourself with the latest dose of British bloggery goodness, hosted by The Wardman Wire.
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Continue reading →: Should BA survive?
British Airways needs job cuts to survive, CEO says. It pays to stop from time to time, look at your business and ask "If I were starting today, is this how I would do it?" If you apply this test to BA, the answer is certainly "no." In many respects,…
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Continue reading →: Difference and Similarity
I am spending this week and next in Shanghai for my work, which pleases me greatly. It's only my third visit and the first where I have been able to stay a while. I have always been fascinated by China. This is a culture which has existed continuously for thousands…
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Continue reading →: Harriet Harman is as daft as a brush
Discrimination against northerners to be banned under Harriet Harman plans – Telegraph. Indeed, lads and lasses, if brains were gunpowder, she wouldn't have enough to blow her bloody hat off. I grew up "oop North" among just the kind of hatred to which she is now pandering. I remember a…
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Continue reading →: Does Shahid have a point?
Twitter / Shahid Ahmad: When Theo van Gogh was mur …. Blogger Shahid Ahmad of Suspect Paki is tweeting furiously about this shocking story. A Russian in Germany was being prosecuted at the instigation of a Muslim couple for "insult and abuse". The accused strode across the court room and…
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Continue reading →: What is libertarianism?
Libertarianism – Counting Cats in Zanzibar. This is an interesting perspective on what libertarianism means. I am not sure I entirely agree, but it's certainly a good counter to the stereotypes of "selfishness" and "anarchism". …what’s the difference between charity and socialism? What’s the difference between a free society and…
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Continue reading →: Note to Chris Bryant: the British Empire ended some years ago
They're Joking. Aren't They?: Goldfinger. The English cliché I miss most is "it is none of my business." It is a wonderful phrase, but one which Labour ministers seem not to know. Government derives its power from us, the people. Unless you believe in Divine Right, what other source of…
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Continue reading →: Adding the barbed wire
Is the state guilty of child kidnap? – Telegraph. The gentleman in the linked story approached his child's school with a request based on a perceived risk (he is related to European royalty) of her being kidnapped; He asked that he could be allowed to drive into the school grounds…
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Continue reading →: Obama hits CTRL-ALT-DELETE; Russia declines to reboot?
Obama heads to Moscow for reset summit | World | Reuters. I shall be in the same city as "the One" for a day or two. Yawn. I shall work from home tomorrow. The traffic in Moscow is quite bad enough without the POTUS motorcade. I fear Mr Obama's hosts…
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Continue reading →: Is it democracy they don’t understand, or the English language?
Drivers back bans for using mobiles | Metro.co.uk. So, I glean from the linked article, less than a third of motorists are nanny's boys who think the state should ban – for an unemployment-inducing six months – those caught using a mobile phone while driving. Hurrah for common sense, you…
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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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