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Continue reading →: I have only one question about this…
Money Central – Times Online – WBLG: Gordon Brown's 10 worst financial gaffes. Why were the financial journalists silent when these gaffes were being made? It's a bit late now. h/t The Crown Blogspot
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Continue reading →: Sticks, stones and sexism
Quaequam Blog! » Iain Dale calls Lib Dem candidate a “whore”. I don't usually cross-post or refer to my contributions elsewhere but not all my readers may visit the Quaequam Blog by LibDem James Graham. I recently took him mildly to task for accusing Iain Dale of sexism, earning this…
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Continue reading →: Truth in comedy
YouTube – Steve Hughes on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. Michael McIntyre is funny and his Comedy Roadshow is a good programme. Of course, most of his guests are right-on, politically-correct comedians, but not this guy. I cheered as well as laughed at his set. Dick Puddlecote (to whom, a tip…
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Continue reading →: Le mot juste
In the land of the one-eyed King………… M' learned friend Anna Raccoon is on fine form today and has come up with the perfect name for the MPs expenses scandal. Profli-Gate Wonderful. Do click on the link above to read the rest.
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Continue reading →: How not to handle an angry electorate
politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Who’ll get the blame for the expenses blackout?. If our politicians truly understood what they have done, in an ethical or even a political sense, they would never have made such a hash of yesterday. Of course, many of the worse offenders have nothing to…
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Continue reading →: Big Bang, or damp squib?
UK Parliament – Allowances by MP. I took a few moments to examine the claims of the MP for my "home town" in England. As a long-time expatriate, I lost my vote in the UK before I ever bought a house there, so she's not technically my MP. She's the…
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Continue reading →: Virtually the best place for Libertarians to meet?
The Libertarian Party of the UK now has about 25 members in Second Life. Other LPUK members and supporters can of course easily visit Second Life by downloading the free client software and signing up for a free account. There's no need to spend money there at all and a…
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Continue reading →: Murdoch’s despicable rag serves the state again
Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity – Times Online. Though regularly and willingly used as puppets of ministers who lie and smear off the record through protected anonymous sources "close to" them (such as Damian McBride) The Times has fought blogger Nightjack in the High Court to…
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Continue reading →: Mostly harmless
Angela Rippon: I should be host of Top Gear – Telegraph. Angela Rippon is a harmless "old bird" (her phrase, not mine, I would never have dared). But she believes in a disgusting modern fallacy, which is the very antithesis of fairness. A fallacy notably promoted by the woman who…
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Continue reading →: The real Robin Hood
The Devil's Kitchen: An anniversary For almost 800 years Magna Carta has been cited in arguments between free men. The ideas which make us who we are (and by us, I don't just mean the English, but the whole English-speaking world) began on the day King John, notorious from the…
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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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