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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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Continue reading →: Our state broadcaster’s view of the day
(click to enlarge) You would never know there was any concern about MPs, their fiddling and diddling, would you?
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Continue reading →: Quote of the day
I was exchanging email reminiscences with an old friend about a dinner to which he treated me in London two decades ago. A giant of our industry happened to be sitting at the next table and suggested my friend should pick up his bill as well. He wrote that he…
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Continue reading →: How much has your MP claimed?
The basic expense data they tried to suppress can now be downloaded here. If you have a blog, please add your own link to the download and blog about it. Please check your own MP's claims and write to him/her about them, politely requesting further details if necessary. Let's make…
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Continue reading →: The smug face of our “representatives”
Public trust in politicians now lower than during days of Tory sleaze – Telegraph. Martin Bell tells it like it is. Beau Bo d'Or saves us from our rage by making us laugh about it (click to enlarge). It's not just Labour though. When their failure to prevent the…
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Continue reading →: Reflections on age, psychology and sex
Last week a friend persuaded me to go to a casino with him, insisting I must not be a spectator. I agreed to go and gamble as much as he did. Armed with 60,000 roubles in cash (nothing much, it proved, to serious Russian gamblers) I set off nervously. It…
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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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