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Continue reading →: Is there nothing so sacred that this oaf and his spin doctors will not try to exploit it?
Gordon Brown on emotional trip to Auschwitz – Telegraph. Gordon Brown is a bad man. He is a machine politician, hardened in the cockpit of the Scottish Labour Party; characterised by an amoral lust for power and the adoption of any means necessary to gain it, regardless of the cost…
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Continue reading →: Carry on wrecking, Gordon
Petition to: carry on leading this great country of ours. | Number10.gov.uk. After all, there are 46 cretinous loyalists who want you to.
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Continue reading →: Power to the People
Shades of Grey » Power to the People. Ian Grey has the answer to my question about Earth Day power consumption in the UK. It's quite a technical answer, as is his wont, but the upshot is – the Brits ignored it too. How do the media justify giving so…
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Continue reading →: Even the Guardian is laughing at him
Downing Street website petition asks Gordon Brown to resign | Politics | guardian.co.uk. Apparently the Downing Street website crashed because so many people were logging on at once to sign the petition calling for the feartie Fifer’s resignation. If only a few tens of thousands are enough to crash it,…
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Continue reading →: Petition to: resign. | Number10.gov.uk
Petition to: resign. | Number10.gov.uk. The Number 10 Online petitions are generally a waste of time. However, wouldn't it be fun if more than a million voted for this one? Go on. Head over there. You know you want to…
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Continue reading →: Paid grandparenting
Grandparents may not take up full-time child care due to Budget – Telegraph. Is it me, or is this story totally warped? "Campaigners" want parents to be able to pay taxpayer money allowed to them for child care to their parents in return for them looking after their own grandchildren?…
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Continue reading →: The wrong road
Poland 'to ban' Che Guevara image – Telegraph Of course, I understand where the Polish government is coming from. Like Germany it already bans Nazi paraphernalia. Interestingly, neither country needs to ban Mein Kampf, because the German Land of Bavaria owns the copyright and has always prevented republication. However in…
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Continue reading →: A busy chap
Saint George – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I wish my readers a happy Saint George's Day. George is the patron saint not only of England, but also – if Wikipedia is to be believed – of Aragon, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities…
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Continue reading →: A terrible place to grow up
Britain 'one of the worst places in Europe to grow up' – Telegraph. No kidding. Since the "experts" quoted in the story want more of the government involvement that has been such a stunning success, it's not likely to get much better either. Britain is also one of the worst…
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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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