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Continue reading →: A privatisation we should all oppose
Jack Straw plan for private inquests back on agenda | UK news | The Guardian. When any government seeks to deny public justice on the grounds of "national security," alarm bells should ring. Politicians have a track record of confusing the nation's security with their own political convenience. In this…
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Continue reading →: Join us at the Convention on Modern Liberty
Liberal Conspiracy » Join us at the Covention on Modern Liberty | creating a new liberal-left alliance. This is shaping up to be an interesting event. There will be a bloggers "summit" (which makes me laugh, isn't it more like a base camp?) hosted by Liberal Conspiracy and Comment is…
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Continue reading →: Liveblogging Dave on AM
As our country slides further and faster into debt, I am incredulously watching the leader of the allegedly Conservative Opposition propose continued increases in public spending. He is visibly terrified of the word "cuts" ever being uttered again in proximity to the word "Tory." He is craven in the face…
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Continue reading →: The Reader
I read and enjoyed Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader when it was first published in English. I was reluctant to see the film adaptation, as I always am when I like the book. A movie can hardly improve on any but the shortest and lightest of novels, so the risk…
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Continue reading →: Using your money to exclude you
Public money used to stop public having a greater say in policing – Telegraph. Don't ask whose money it is. Our public officials certainly don't think it's ours. Listening to "The World at One" as I drove along the M56 today, I heard Yvette Cooper, Labour's current irritant-in chief, talk…
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Continue reading →: Half of schoolchildren bullied (if bullying defined as rudeness)
Ofsted: Half of schoolchildren bullied – Telegraph. Can we reclaim our language from these idiots please? Did they ever go to school themselves? If "verbal abuse" is bullying, then the amazing thing is that half of the pupils were not bullied. Indeed, I am now worried about them. Had they…
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Continue reading →: Why I support Israel
Israel acts because the world won't defend it | Daniel Finkelstein – Times Online. If you feel Israel is at fault (and it's hard to find any other view in the MSM in Britain) I would refer you to Daniel Finkelstein's excellent piece today in The Times. He references the…
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Continue reading →: Why the police disappoint
Ruralshire Policing Pledge « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG. Inspector Gadget writes the best public service blog, bar none. Today he explains the real reasons why the police sometimes disappoint their "customers": You are mad and are asking us to communicate with your deceased grandmother or fight Cybermen in your garden. (true…
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Continue reading →: Waiting for the One
Comment Central – Times Online – WBLG: Should Israel talk to Hamas?. Danny Finkelstein concisely makes the key points. What he sadly (and inaccurately) calls "liberal opinion" is asking Israel to "make peace" with people who will not be satisfied (at present) with anything less than its annihilation. The government…
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Continue reading →: New Labour cracking the whip
New Labour cracking the whip over extreme porn « Harpymarx. The relentless invasion of our private life by this government continues. Labour knows no ethical limits to state power, because it believes the state itself to be an ethical force. Its simple minded equation is that "more government = more…
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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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