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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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Continue reading →: Do they have any concern for the truth?
Stephen Pound MP has casually alleged on live TV that Guido Fawkes "hacked" email accounts. Derek Draper also suggested that his email account has been hacked. That is a serious (and, except – of course – when done by the state) criminal allegation. If they could support the claim (which…
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Continue reading →: Is Brown more Nixonian than Obaman?
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | No 10 apology over 'slur' e-mails. I am sure no-one is surprised that No. 10 Downing Street is populated by vicious obsessives who are just as puerile now as they were when student politicians. After all, that pretty much sums up their…
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Continue reading →: The car that started it all
As a teenager, I was taken for a hair-raising ride by the kind of relative every teenager should have; one with a Ferrari. Resting at home this bank holiday, it occurred to me that there was probably a film of a Dino "in flight" on the internet. Here it is.…
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Continue reading →: What is Thatcherism?
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary: What is Thatcherism?. Conservative Home is inviting definitions and has stimulated the usual polarised debate. It will take historians as yet unborn to set Margaret Thatcher in context. She is simply too great an historical figure for us to evaluate her without the benefit of distance. Right now,…
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Continue reading →: Enough with the IPCC already
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | G20 | G20 fatality pushed by policeman. I object to the very existence of the IPCC. A British policeman should be an ordinary citizen employed to enforce the law, just as anyone else could (and should). He should have no special rights or privileges.…
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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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