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Continue reading →: Every vote for an honest candidate counts today
Good luck in finding one. If recent events prove anything, it's that voting by reference to the candidate's membership of a major party is not a reliable method, so you will have to think harder. Meanwhile, I am disenfranchised and walking thoughtfully in the Belgian woods, wondering what you will…
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Continue reading →: Dungeekin’s best effort yet
The Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire: Hoon Smith And Darling. …brilliant. h/t Boris Johnson
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Continue reading →: This is a mistake
Prince of Wales to attend 65th D-Day anniversary – Telegraph. President Sarkozy's failure to invite the Queen to the 65th Anniversary of D-Day was an insult to the British nation and particularly to our soldiers, sailors and airmen who gave their lives in the liberation of France. I am no…
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Continue reading →: What are they really teaching in our schools?
Pupils selling sweets at St Anselm's College could be excluded – Telegraph. It seems the headmaster of St Anselm's College, Birkenhead (deep in the Peoples' Republic of Scouseland) is teaching that a business-person selling sweets and sugary drinks is responsible for the obesity of the person consuming them. He is…
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Continue reading →: Citizen’s arrests in progress?
Henry North London: Parliament June 1st. Today is the day for Old Holborn's public spirited attempt to make citizen's arrests of various MPs outside the Houses of Parliament. Nothing in the media as yet, but Henry of North London has blogged from the scene, including this (probably illegal) photo of…
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Continue reading →: Well-deserved obscurity?
normblog: Obscure author. This gem of a post from the British blogosphere's favourite leftist academic made me chuckle. Of course, one understands how disappointing it must be to a man whose Wikipedia entry reports that "…In a long academic career, he has contributed substantially to the analysis of the works…
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Continue reading →: Cranmer on Brown
Cranmer: Cranmer reaches 60,000 unique visitors. His Grace Archbishop Cranmer is celebrating a milestone in the history of his blog. Why not head on over and offer him congratulations? He is currently working on a sermon that might have been preached to the Prime Minister by his father, were he…
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Continue reading →: The Sun rises again on the Conservatives
The Sun Says | The Sun |News|Sun Says. The biggest political news for years is at risk of being lost in the firestorm over expenses. The Sun (of "It wos the Sun wot won it" fame) is urging its millions of readers to vote Conservative in the European elections. Having…
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Continue reading →: Susan Boyle in the Priory
Susan Boyle in the Priory – Telegraph. In the Priory already? It didn't take SuBo long to get into the pop star groove, did it? I didn't know the famous clinic handled "emotional breakdowns" as well as providing "drying out" and "detox" services to the terminally-spoiled. Boyle may emerge with…
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Continue reading →: Replacing a quadflipper with a triflipper?
MPs' expenses: Alistair Darling billed us for two homes at the same time – Telegraph. Nick Clegg says the Chancellor of the Exchequer; "needs to enjoy the public's trust when it comes to issues of financial probity, of money, of managing our nation's finances." How idealistic. Taxation is theft. Actually…
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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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