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Continue reading →: Money in motion -vs- profit
Busiest Boxing Day is unlikely to save High Street slump – Telegraph. What hope is there for British capitalism when journalists in quality newspapers don't know the difference between turnover and profit? At Selfridges in London's Oxford Street, the store recorded its most profitable hour in the store's 100-year history…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to post-Christmas
How did I survive without nanny's advice? | Hugo Rifkind – Times Online. Hugo Rifkind is on amusing form. But why do our satirists like "Nanny" so much as a metaphor for an overbearing ruler? Most of us didn't have a nanny or know anyone who did. And doesn't "nanny"…
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Continue reading →: Thank you, Mrs Paine
I have so many things to thank her for, but the latest are these, well-chosen, Christmas gifts. Merry Christmas one and all.
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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday, Miss Paine the Younger
The younger Miss Paine shares her birthday with Jesus and so for 19 years, in our home, a part of this day has been set aside for her. This is her cake. Happy birthday, MPTY.
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Continue reading →: Christmas Greetings
All best wishes for a merry, festive Christmas and a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year from me and my Second Life "avatar", LastDitch Writer.
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Continue reading →: Christmas 1941
OK, so it's wartime propaganda, but it's interesting. The narration reads, in part; There is no reason for America to feel sorry for England this Christmas. England doesn't feel sorry for herself. Destiny gave her the torch of Liberty to hold and she has not dropped it. She has not…
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Continue reading →: Welfare, Crime and Abortion – Were Levitt et al. Correct?
A Very British Dude: Welfare, Crime and Abortion – Were Levitt et al. Correct?. The Dude makes elegantly a point I have been crudely sledge hammering for some time. He observes astutely that the notion of "moral hazard" applies equally to the recipients of all state handouts, whether welfare claimants,…
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Continue reading →: Election Poster?
Over lunch the other day, I criticised the Conservative Party for its poor performance as HM Opposition. One of my friends asked how I would do it differently and this (above) was one of my tongue-in-cheek suggestions. What do you think?
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Continue reading →: The Quick and the dead (career)
Comment Central – Times Online – WBLG: What Bob Quick tells us about Damian Green. If the comments on Daniel Finkelstein's piece are anything to go by, the public has lost all confidence in the senior leadership of our police forces (and particularly the Met). With the exception of one…
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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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