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Continue reading →: How long can they tolerate Web 2.00?
Editorial: In praise of … Beatrice Webb | Comment is free | The Guardian. The editorial is truly bizarre (though, sadly, the odious Stalinist Webbs are also memorialised at the otherwise respectable London School of Economics) but the comments are wonderful. Web 2.00 is a marvel and one wonders how…
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Continue reading →: Minister accuses former MI5 chief of ‘abject nonsense’
Minister accuses former MI5 chief of 'abject nonsense' – Telegraph. Hmm. Whom to believe on the subject of Britain drifting toward a police state? A former poly lecturer and lifelong leftist hack, whose job it is to deny it? Or an experienced specialist who worked in all three branches of…
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Continue reading →: Britain becoming a police state?
News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Britain: becoming a police state? The poll on this question over at Times Online (follow link above) seems to be going quite well. Do please head over there and vote. I am not sure how much good it will do but you will…
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Continue reading →: Help wanted – A chilling landmark for civil liberties in the UK
Katabasis: Help wanted – A chilling landmark for civil liberties in the UK. Please click through and read about this shocking case. If you feel you have nothing to fear from civil liberties encroachments, this may finally convince you that…
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Continue reading →: The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]. I commend to you for your Valentine's Night reading, this little essay by Lawrence W. Reed of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He expresses elegantly what libertarians often struggle to explain. Johnny Statist always justifies…
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Continue reading →: Fitna, judge for yourself while you still have the right
It's not a good movie. It's not well-conceived or well made. I am perfectly aware that one could easily make a similar film about Christianity, given all the hatred and violence that particular religion has also inspired. However, I believe you have the perfect right to make that anti-Christian film…
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Continue reading →: Ingenuity; we are going to need a lot of it
In another appalling week for civil liberties in my benighted country, I am leaving it to the rest of the blogosphere to despair about Jackboot Smith, our obnoxious Home Secretary, champion expense-fiddler and founder of the British brownshirts. I am not going to speculate about why she is so keen…
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Continue reading →: Apologies for absence
Most of this week has been spent on aeroplanes, as I have been in Shanghai and now Hong Kong. I face another long flight to Moscow via Munich overnight, but normal service should then be resumed.
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Continue reading →: Use it, or lose it?
British teenagers have lower IQs than their counterparts did 30 years ago – Telegraph. Had the results of this study shown that Intelligence Quotients had risen over the same period, I have no doubt that our educators would have claimed the credit. Indeed they did claim the credit for the…
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Continue reading →: The truth. Is it out there?
Golliwog row: Mad, or just morally muddled? – Telegraph.It has been such an odd week that I have even found Libby Purves amusing for the first time ever. Normally, I find her smug mumsiness infuriating. A thought came back to me, as I read her "Man from Mars" piece, that…
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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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