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Continue reading →: Jury still out after six days
De Menezes inquest: jury continues deliberations into Stockwell shooting – Telegraph. This seems to be the only good news of the day. No jury needs six days simply to comply with directions as clear as were given by the coroner. Someone in that jury room wants to return a (correct)…
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Continue reading →: Dark days for Britain
Peer Steinbrück on the Global Economic Crisis | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com. The whole British blogosphere is commenting on Minister Steinbrück's remarks, so I thought you might like to read the interview in full. In diplomatic terms it is almost incredible. Friendly nations simply don't speak about each other…
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Continue reading →: The Orwell Prize
The Orwell Prize | How to Enter – Submissions for the Orwell Prize 2008. There is some fine writing in the British political blogosphere and now there is an award to recognise it. The Orwell Prize will, this year, include a "Blog Prize." Click on the link above to enter…
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Continue reading →: German ridicule for UK policies
BBC NEWS | Business | German ridicule for UK policies. Isn't the German finance minister precisely right? What fools the British voters are to fall for policies which are the national equivalent of using one credit card to pay off another. What fools they are to follow a deluded man…
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Continue reading →: Who ARE these people we share our islands with?
The Croydonian: The Great British public disgraces itself again. Not only (see last post) does our Leader have delusions of omnipotence, our fellow citizens are prepared to trust government in key areas (freedom of thought and expression) where history proves it can never be trusted. The Croydonian is one of…
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Continue reading →: “We not only saved the world…”
Everyone on the 'net has this, it seems. Absolutely priceless. His grip on reality is tenuous, to say the least.
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Continue reading →: The Big Brother state
The Big Brother state – by stealth – UK Politics, UK – The Independent. It does not matter whether the majority approve schemes which undermine individual rights. Democracy is not a moral force, it is just a mechanism to determine who is in charge of the state, which has (or…
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Continue reading →: Corruption?
Probe over council official who evicted pensioners – then moved into their home – Telegraph. Read the linked article and you may better understand this.
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Continue reading →: Shari`a vs English Law
Shari`a — Suspect Paki. I wish he posted more often, because Shahid over at Suspect Paki provides one of the few unmediated insights into the thinking of our Muslim community in Britain. He is a sincere man with his heart mostly in the right place who says some quite terrifying…
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Continue reading →: Something Odd in the Banking Bill?
Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Something Odd in the Banking Bill. Look what Guido has found.
THE LAST DITCH
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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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