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Continue reading →: Please sign this petition
Petition to: to remind his government that parents must remain responsible in law for ensuring the welfare and education of their children and that the state should not seek to appropriate these responsibilities. | Number10.gov.uk. If you believe that parents should be responsible for their children's education, please let the…
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Continue reading →: ‘Sexpat’ sacked
'Sexpat' lawyer who published online erotic novel sacked from City firm – Telegraph. As a general principle, how does the publication (in whatever medium) of a novel by a member of its staff bring a company into disrepute? I can't see that the firm in question was ever mentioned on…
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Continue reading →: UK plc closed
FT Alphaville » Blog Archive » UK plc closed. It seems I am not the only one who finds today’s panic in London ridiculous. Well done the pink ‘un.
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Continue reading →: A message from the Prime Minister
This snow started in Russia and is global snow which no one could have foreseen. I indicated ten years ago that such snow needed regulation and we must act together now, globally, to ensure that we survive this coming week. The government will not be diverted from spending some billions…
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Continue reading →: The dwindling of Britain
Britain comes to standstill after 1ft of snow – Telegraph. The once-great capital of England is at a halt today because of what is, by Russian standards, the merest dusting of snow. Emails from my office in Moscow reveal that life continues as normal. Here in London for Mrs P's…
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Continue reading →: Yes, we can. But we are not going to
Barack Obama to allow anti-terror rendition to continue – Telegraph. Now that the practice is endorsed by "the one," can we expect the Dems in Hollywood to make a sequel to Rendition, in which the abductors are the heroes? So many values seem to be relative in classic Left/Right politics.…
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Continue reading →: The NSPCC, real or fake charity?
– Bishop Hill blog – The NSPCC – a danger to society. Bishop Hill has upset me this morning. I have had a standing order to the NSPCC for some years. I was unaware that it was taking £14 million of government money and angry to find that it is supporting…
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Continue reading →: Welcome back, Tom
Welcome back Tom Paine, unsung American hero | Ben Macintyre – Times Online. I would not blog in his name if I did not greatly admire the man. He was the most effective pamphleteer in history and had a hand in the founding of two of the republics I most…
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Continue reading →: We are all “criminals” now (but then, somewhere, we already were)
Raedwald: Integrated EU blacklist of 'criminals' is here. It is hard to know where to begin with Raedwald's sobering post. Did you ever hear of a more sinister concept than for "insult of the State, Nation or State symbols" to be a crime? Yet Raedwald and other bloggers who have…
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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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
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That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…