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Continue reading →: Anti-terror billboard
Anti-terror billboard. James Holden has given us all the opportunity to improve on the "denounce them, comrades!" posters now defiling the nation's billboards. Here's my humble effort (click to enlarge). I am sure you can do better. (h/t Old Holborn)
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Continue reading →: One-77 at Geneva
One-77. My visit to the Geneva motor show was already a couple of weeks ago, but looking through my photographs I found this one of the amazing Aston Martin One-77. At £1.2 million a piece, this is a little out of my league, but it is good to know that…
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Continue reading →: Putting “stimulus” in context
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?. According to an erudite commenter over at Obnoxio's place, a trillion is $5 for every star in the galaxy. Personally, I think governments should be constitutionally obliged to describe all expenditures in TWL's (taxpayer working lives). Until then, Pagetutor.com has gone to the…
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Continue reading →: A national spa
Britain should not fear asking for IMF cash – Telegraph. Can anyone doubt which "senior cabinet minister" is (directly or indirectly) being quoted below ? The previous Labour Government's bail-out by the IMF in 1976 was seen as a national humiliation and helped sweep the party from power for 18…
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Continue reading →: A coach who wants to win? Fire him!!
Scituate “Green Death” soccer coach resigns – Quincy, MA – The Patriot Ledger. I would love the guy even more if he had not pretended the original email was meant as "humor". There was humour in it, certainly, but I suspect he meant every word. All coaches should be like…
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Continue reading →: Anti-capitalists and their apologists
TheFatBigot Opines: The capitalist anti-capitalists. The FatBigot (is he as unfat as he is unbigoted, I idly wonder) has nailed the leftist media for their sympathetic coverage of the idiots making asses of themselves on London's streets yesterday. You see, there is a bizarre parallel universe in which socialism is…
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Continue reading →: 10 ways the world could end
Last night I was telling a friend over dinner about the wonderful website TEDTalks. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a conference. TEDTalks shares the best ideas from TED with the world, for free. The site speaks of; "trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses, all giving the talk of…
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Continue reading →: Does anyone have the graph for London?
Earth Hour in California – Success or Bust? The CAISO Power graph tells the story. « Watts Up With That? Many thanks to Watts up with that? (a new blog to me) for starting my day with a smile. The festival of smug luddism that was "Earth Hour," much trumpeted…
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Continue reading →: Our first new colony for some time
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Whitehall defends 'fantasy world'. How amusing. The British government has established an "innovations centre" in Second Life. The BBC reports that it has cost twenty thousand pounds to set up and will cost twelve thousand pounds a year to run, but those…
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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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