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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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Continue reading →: Britblog Roundup 203
The latest Britblog Roundup is to be found over at Liberal England.
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Continue reading →: Portrait of a lady
Thatcher finds a permanent home at No 10: First look at the £100,000 portrait Brown ordered as a lasting tribute | Mail Online. The only time in my life when I felt that there was some chance of reversing Britain's decline was when Margaret Thatcher was in power. As a…
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Continue reading →: Thousands throw shoes in London. I send pizza.
Thousands throw shoes at Downing Street in protest against Israeli action in Gaza – Telegraph. I am in London with my family to see Oedipus at the National Theatre. A window of our hotel was smashed by the pro-Palestinian rabble for no particular reason. As I watched them from my…
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Continue reading →: Our brilliant government
Government 'fixing health consultations' with taxpayer-funded groups – Telegraph. Sitting as a committee, it is doubtful if the entire Cabinet could pass a British Constitution "A" level. Our government is hopeless at delivering and procuring public services. It is useless at executive oversight of state employees. It has the financial…
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Continue reading →: Helen Suzman, RIP
BBC NEWS | Africa | Obituary: Helen Suzman. Helen Suzman was a voice in the wilderness for much of her political career; pleading what must often have seemed a hopeless case. She did not achieve high office. She had none of the trappings of success that so many lesser politicians…
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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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