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Continue reading →: Civil liberties during a recession
Civil liberties during a recession | The price of freedom | The Economist It's a bit hard for "my" newspaper, the Economist, (the only one I still take in print form) to speak of me and hundreds of others thus: "A MOB of Britain’s finest eccentrics will gather in central…
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Continue reading →: Should “egging on” be a crime?
Woman who egged on partner found guilty of manslaughter | UK news | guardian.co.uk. I am sure it is legally correct (as the law currently stands) but is this justice? Even if this woman did "egg on" her thug of a boyfriend, is she responsible for his actions? After all,…
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Continue reading →: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Mrs P., Miss P. the Younger and I were at the National last night for the revival of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn's "play for actors and orchestra" from the 70's. Theatre is now all I miss about living in England. Russia has a superb theatre culture, but my Russian…
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Continue reading →: Prodicus tells it like it is
Prodicus: Reeling drunk advocates ‘new age of sobriety’. I am speechless. Save to admit that I wish I had written this post. I have nothing to add. Amen, brother.
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Continue reading →: Property groups in £3bn call on shareholders
FT.com / Companies / Property – Property groups in £3bn call on shareholders. The question to ask about this article is nothing to do with real estate. These major private companies are trying to raise a further three billion pounds from the markets because their banks may call in loans.…
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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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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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