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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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Continue reading →: The “right” to talk?
Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » Doctors want right to talk faith. This article is distressing. In my opinion, the NHS has no right to discipline its employees for discussing anything with patients. The patients are the true employers. The NHS is merely a monopolistic state agency between them and…
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Continue reading →: A line has been crossed
Benefit payouts will exceed income tax revenue – Telegraph. How can Britain's taxpayers fail to erupt in rage at this information? Their income taxes are not enough to cover defence, education or health any more. Every single penny ripped from their hard-earned income in tax now goes to those on…
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Continue reading →: Friends vs “Friends”
With the growth of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, all of which revolve around the idea of "friends", I have to wonder what the word really means now. Apart from my "friends" on such sites (both in my capacity as Tom and as my alter ego…
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Continue reading →: Unsentimental education
Labour to junk Tony Blair's flagship school reform | Politics | The Guardian. What Labour seems now to be saying, with such announcements, is this; "When deciding whether to vote for us, please forget what we did in the last 12 years. Please judge us on these policies we have…
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Continue reading →: Housekeeping
I have been with Typepad for a while now and I find it more elegant and easy to work with than Blogger. As it should be. It costs money. Blogger is free. I have had complaints from readers who find it hard to comment here. That's bad. Reading my own…
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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