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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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Continue reading →: Britain’s generous welfare system triggered baby boom
Britain's generous welfare system triggered baby boom – Telegraph. So a piece of academic research seems to confirm what the nasty right-wingers have been saying. Given the red/pink (shall we call it burgundy?) bias in Britain's academia, that's a rare occurrence. On our way to hospital this morning for the…
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Continue reading →: Political policing
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Cameron demands police retraction. Pace many decent policemen trying to do their jobs in difficult circumstances, it is now apparent that – for their politicised leadership (and particularly that of the Met) – the police service is now the paramilitary wing of…
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Continue reading →: Compare and contrast
This, with this. The worst part of the first story is that someone can get a job writing for a national newspaper who doesn't understand the meaning of a simple word like "voluntary" Compulsory volunteering is win-win and a recession is a perfect time for it. Lots of new jobs…
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Continue reading →: Patriotism vs Nationalism – Part 2: Virtue or vice?
Patriotism was one of the virtues that made Rome great. Unless many Roman citizens had believed in Horace's classic expression of patriotism; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori the glory of Rome could never have been. The sacrifices of an ordinary legionnaire were probably not as great as they…
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Continue reading →: Investment advice
I have just enjoyed a lunch with some of my profession's "good eggs" in the City. After an hour of gloomily exchanging notes on our (and our clients') businesses and the government's approach to the crisis, I asked what investment recommendations they could give my readers. After a pause, 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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
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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