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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…
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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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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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