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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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Continue reading →: Web site story
This is from the sporadically-brilliant Collegehumor.com. It should send you off smiling to your weekend. http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1913584&fullscreen=1 See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. h/t Theo
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Continue reading →: How to call a liar a liar without making a personal attack?
politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is this getting a little personal?. The success of the New Labour Project is based on lies. The mother of all these lies is that Labour has changed. That it is no longer the party of profligate "tax and spend." That it is no longer…
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Continue reading →: The political lies capital of Europe
UK is violent crime capital of Europe – Telegraph. No-one who is paying any attention could doubt this. For goodness' sake, even Henley Regatta has suffered hooliganism. I hear that the city where I have my pied à terre in the North of England suffers one murder every time there…
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Continue reading →: This seems like a good idea
10 Drowning Street by Lord Elvis: The Truth Is Back In Business – Sign Up Now!. What do you think? Collective blogging? Not sure it’s my style.
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Continue reading →: All blacked up and nowhere to go
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Kent | School bans black-face Morris Men. Sir Thomas Beecham said one should try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing. I quite agree. Nonetheless, God help us, Morris dancing is part of England's cultural heritage. No matter what colour face paint the dancers…
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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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