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Continue reading →: Professions ‘increasingly dominated by the wealthiest.’ Duh.
Professions 'increasingly dominated by the wealthiest' – Telegraph. …the Government and the professions must "widen the talent pool" if the seven million new professional jobs it estimates will be needed in Britain by 2020 were to be filled… Oh really? And I suppose that the politicisation, dumbing-down and general degradation…
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Continue reading →: Shame on us all
Rachel from north London: Shame on you. Look at the face of the police officer in the film as he casually slaps a young woman in the face with the back of his hand. Have you seen such an expression before? The casual, confident thuggery? The absolute sense of entitlement?…
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Continue reading →: Just for a change, more stealth taxes
The Taxpayers' Alliance has created a "green calculator" to help you work out how much you pay in useless eco-taxes. This is my personal result. It ignores any I may (though I doubt it) be paying on flights from Russia to places outside the EU. Nor does it account for…
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Continue reading →: A suite on Piccadilly
Tory Bear – right-wing political gossip…: Suite 35. Blogger Tory Bear has done some of that "fact-checking" stuff journalists talk about far more often than they do. That Derek Draper is somewhat estranged from Truth hardly needs repeating. That his breathtaking contempt for the intelligence of the electorate was his…
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Continue reading →: Where’s Tom?
Books that influence me as a politician and dad | Tom Watson MP. Given recent events, much amusement has been had with number 15 on Tom Watson's list of books that have "influenced, interested or amused" him. It has even been suggested that he's making a play to be mentioned…
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Continue reading →: It seems the Sun readers are interested too
Two Dinners Tom is behind this sick plot | Fergus Shanahan | The Sun |News|Columnists|Fergus Shanahan. So it's not just a story for the wonks then? If you think that the political bloggers overdo the personal abuse from time to time, check out the professional work of Fergus Shanahan, the…
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Continue reading →: The recession, destabilised
THE RECESSION HAS GONORRHEA, CLAIMS DOWNING STREET – The Daily Mash. Smeargate may (or may not) be of interest only to political wonks. Only time will tell. The News of the World isn't usually of much interest to us, but it thought the story had legs. The Daily Telegraph –…
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Continue reading →: Smeargate; vox pop
Tory Totty Online: Public Response to "Smeargate". Tory Totty has been reading the comments over at the News of the World website. This is the one that summed it up for me: "What do we get from Gordon and his cronies? Sleaze, expense fiddles, lies, spin, spin and more spin.…
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Continue reading →: Oh, the moral superiority…
Iain Dale's Diary: Galloway & Boulton Lay Into Draper. There could scarcely be a better index of our nation's ethical decay than that George Galloway is today in a position to claim moral superiority over the talentless, ignorant Derek Draper. Unless perhaps it is the temerity with which Draper claims…
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Continue reading →: The corrupt cabal at the heart of our government
Revealed: e-mails that toppled key Brown aide – Times Online. This is beyond a joke. It seems that our Prime Minister has surrounded himself with a cabal of ethical degenerates. He must be held to account for his team's behaviour. He chose these people. They know his mind. Even if…
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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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