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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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Continue reading →: Mars Hill: Jacqui Smith And Those *Ahem*, Films
Mars Hill: Jacqui Smith And Those *Ahem*, Films. I was quietly enjoying the Home Secretary's discomfiture over her husband's high self-esteem, when my RSS feed threw up the latest from that most stereotypical Labourite, Paul Burgin over at Mars Hill. Today, he is telling us all, in effect, that "there's…
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Continue reading →: Taken for granted, lied to, ripped off and ignored
Dan Hannan speaks for England; again. How wonderful to see a liberty-minded Conservative who can hold his own behind enemy lines on Newsnight. h/t Guthrum
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Continue reading →: A political beauty parade?
¿Quién es la política más linda del mundo? – Listas – 20minutos.es. Beauty contests are really quite ludicrous. I have no ideological objection to them, as long as they are consensual, but human tastes are so wide in these matters that almost everyone in the world is beautiful to someone.…
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Continue reading →: Age diplomacy
Tesco to challenge any person who looks under 25 if they buy alcohol – Telegraph. I have sympathy for Tesco. The law puts the company at risk of losing valuable alcohol sales if employees make innocent mistakes. I feel sorry for managers who must train staff to handle the situation…
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Continue reading →: President Lula Da Silva on the Credit Crunch
Brazil President Lula Da Silva Says White People Caused Credit Crunch, After Meeing Gordon Brown | Politics | Sky News. I see that other countries' leaders have just as profound a grasp of the situation as our own. Poor President Da Silva will now, sadly, face ignorant criticism from the…
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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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