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Continue reading →: Another step to the police state?
Tory minister Damian Green arrested under the Official Secrets Acts – Telegraph. Over drinks last night I was explaining my concerns about civil liberties in Britain to a senior colleague from London. He thought them overstated. He agreed that some new laws were inappropriate, but said "There's nothing to worry…
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Continue reading →: Kerry Gold
Blogger: Kerry McCarthy – Post a Comment. A creditable moment of truth from Labour MP, Kerry McCarthy. The problem is, that some of these people are unemployable – not just because of lack of qualifications, but more because of lack of social skills or any awareness of what is right…
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Continue reading →: Thank you, Chancellor
Darling to unveil 45p tax on rich to fund recession package | Business | guardian.co.uk. Those of us building British businesses in emerging markets have always struggled to persuade experienced, talented and energetic Brits to relocate to the supposed discomforts of life outside the Home Counties. Thank you, Messrs Brown…
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Continue reading →: …another gadget
INTP – The Thinkers "The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working with complex things using a…
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Continue reading →: BMI comparison
The GenderAnalyzer gadget mentioned in my last post seems to have caught the blogging imagination. Given that Norm's and Thunderdragon's writing was analysed as being considerably more masculine than mine, I thought I would compare some of the other bloggers I read regularly. Showing feminine scores as minus, the results…
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Continue reading →: Gender (sic) Analysis
GenderAnalyzer – Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. This (apart from the infuriatingly prudish use of the grammatical term "gender" to distinguish between the sexes) is fun. The software was 63% sure that I am a man. Just follow the link and type in your…
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Continue reading →: The most inept criminals on Earth?
I am amazed by the success that criminals have with simple "phishing" emails, given how implausibly illiterate most of their efforts are. But is there really anyone so stupid as to believe this one? (click to enlarge). Even allowing for the fact that the fraudsters have cleverly set up a…
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Continue reading →: God save the mark…
The media are all over this story, understandably. Columnists and bloggers are opining right and left. To me, the most interesting aspect is that no-one can mention the BNP (even classical liberals or right-wingers who could not possibly be suspected of sympathy with that party's ultra-left command economy policies) without…
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Continue reading →: A libertarian view
Jane Galt–A Libertarian View « Beetle Blogger. On the face of it, the linked post (referencing a rather elderly one, by a now-lapsed blogger) is about the fundamentally uninteresting (to me) question of "gay marriage." In truth, it is about the second most important law, which is that of unintended…
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Continue reading →: Houses of Parliament ‘infested with vermin’ – Telegraph
Houses of Parliament ‘infested with vermin’ – Telegraph. Just when I though the MSM was finally beginning to understand the scale of our political crisis, I realised the Telegraph was talking about rats and mice…
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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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