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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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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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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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