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Continue reading →: Treasury fails to sell Government bonds
City alarm as Treasury fails to sell Government gilts – Telegraph. It was always likely that the UK government's bond issues to fund its "stimulus" packages would fail. Those with money to invest have choices. Financing politicians' desperate attempts to restore the economic la la land of the last decade…
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Continue reading →: MPs call for £40,000 pay rise
Tony McNulty row: MPs call for £40,000 pay rise – Telegraph. They really don’t get it, do they? One of them is caught scamming the system and they demand a pay rise to compensate them for the fact it’s going to be more difficult to do such things in future.…
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Continue reading →: Proof?
Ambush Predator: "What Do You Mean, We Need 'Proof'…?". JuliaM is on amusing form, but I fear she may have spoken too soon. Strangely, standing there pointing at your arch enemies and saying 'Arrest them, officers, they're icky and we hates 'em!' doesn't fly in this country, despite the best…
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Continue reading →: An ordinary girl
Obituary: Jade Goody | Media | guardian.co.uk. Jade Goody's life says much about Britain. She was a mouthy, fun-loving working-class English girl. The sort of person Guardian readers pretend to care about. After all, their ideology proclaims such people as a vanguard class; a class so important that it deserves…
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Continue reading →: There’s not much to do in Wales
… now you can see why I left. To have to go to such lengths for entertainment would have been too much for me. h/t An Englishman's Castle
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Continue reading →: How Progressive Aren’t You?
Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?. Follow the link to try yourself. This was my score (and I am proud of it). h/t Mars Hill
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Continue reading →: On the road again
Last week was great fun. I was attending the 20th MIPIM event in Cannes (I have been to the last 19). I decided to make something special of it by driving Vittoria from the North. After stopping in London to pick up a friend we headed for Eurotunel and the…
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Continue reading →: Sporting achievment, good. Educational achievment, bad.
Three As no longer enough for university – Times Online. Today, on page 70 (and the back page headline) the Times celebrates a spectacular double achievement in swimming. Two British women in the same race broke the 400 metre world record. Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington came second to bronze medallist…
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Continue reading →: Food to blame for 100% of our crimes
'Cocaine to blame for 41% of our crimes' | Metro.co.uk. Statistics are a dangerous thing. Greater Manchester Police drug-tested 1,000 people arrested for violent offences in the seven month period to March last year. Half tested positive for drugs and of these, 86% tested positive for cocaine. Had they tested…
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Continue reading →: Quite so
"Deregulated" :: A Very British Dude. Jackart shares my irritation at the idea that more regulation of a heavily-regulated industry could have saved us from the present unpleasantness.
THE LAST DITCH
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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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