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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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Continue reading →: It seems like the police knew which pathologist to call then?
Ian Tomlinson death: first pathologist once reprimanded about his professional conduct – Telegraph. …and they wonder why we are cynical.
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Continue reading →: “Spinning” a heart attack
Ian Tomlinson G20 protests death: police office faces manslaughter charge – Telegraph. There are so many questions to be answered, but they are not even being asked. Who conducted the first post mortem? On what basis did he form the very convenient view that Mr Tomlinson died of a heart…
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Continue reading →: The Telegraph as a propaganda organ
Middle-class drinkers to be targeted – Telegraph. This week, some journalists have come clean about the cozy relationship with the government under which they betrayed their "Fourth Estate" duties in return for "access" to ministers (and not being bullied by Campbell, McBride and Whelan). Alice Miles wrote, honourably if belatedly,…
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Continue reading →: The Squirrel and The Grasshopper
The Quarterback from Bucharest sent me the following reworking of an old fable doing the rounds on the internet in North America. Thank you, sir. Version One The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. …
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Continue reading →: It’s not us. It’s you
The Melting Pot Project: Worst. Reporter. Ever. In a proper democracy, the people will be heard. Perhaps the worst political mistake Britain ever made was to break the connection between people and their taxes by inventing "Pay as you Earn." This is a system under which employers become unpaid tax…
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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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