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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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Continue reading →: “I don’t know about that…”
In response to Andrew Marr's comment that the Commons blocked publication of MPs expenses, the Prime Minister said "I don't know about that…" and claimed that all this was coming out because of "Labour's Freedom of Information Act." Marr let him get away with it, despite the fact that Gordon…
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Continue reading →: Is this the face of the worst of them all?
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | MP 'claimed for church donation'. He doesn't recall the claim. No doubt because it was one among so many. He doesn't dispute it though, so accepts that he is someone who might try to reclaim from the taxpayer a donation to a…
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Continue reading →: A personal letter from the Prime Mentalist
'I'm sorry.. now vote for me' says Brown in letter blaming Tories for expenses scandal | Mail Online. To our amusement, Mrs Paine received one of these supposedly targetted personal letters. Oh boy, is your database inaccurate guys! Not only is she NOT going to vote for you, she detests…
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Continue reading →: Dear God, is there no end to these comically-appropriate names?
MPs' expenses: Bill Cash claimed £15,000 to pay his daughter rent – Telegraph. Bill Cash did. £15,000 to pay to his daughter. Come on, Cameron. Deal with it.
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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