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Continue reading →: Cocaine kills the planet?
Cocaine users are destroying the rainforest – at 4m squared a gram | World news | The Guardian. Am I alone in reacting to this story with a smile? Not that I am pleased that the rainforest is being destroyed, you understand. I smiled at the thought that so many…
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Continue reading →: In the wilds (by my standards)
HUNTING WITH BREZHNEV – TIME Looking for information about the place where my colleagues and I are spending the weekend (on one of those awful "away days" modern businesses use for "bonding") I found the interesting account in the linked article by Henry Kissinger of the first visit by westerners…
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Continue reading →: Art in Second Life
My longest-running Second Life project is the Limoncello Art Gallery. It is in a 120-metre long airship (named after the Blogpower member Welshcakes Limoncello) moored 700 metres above my land. It houses my collection of Second Life art on one of three floors. On the other two are 12 smaller…
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Continue reading →: The same river a second time
Two economists at the conference I attended yesterday in London gave a sombre assessment of the current situation. Depressing as it was, they warned that; as things are, as soon as you finish a forecast, you need to begin again. This analysis is fresh, but it may already be too…
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Continue reading →: Of friendship, trust and the internet
The internet – like life itself – is wonderful, dangerous and bound to end badly. The German language has a precise way of categorising friendships. Only a real (will be there at your funeral even if it rains) friend qualifies as a "freund." Others may be merely a "geschäftsfreund" or…
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Continue reading →: If only….
There Are 0 Gaps in Your Knowledge Where you have gaps in your knowledge: No Gaps! Where you don't have gaps in your knowledge: Philosophy Religion Economics Literature History Science Art Do You Have Gaps in Your Knowledge? H/T Jams ODonnell, The Poor Mouth
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Continue reading →: From their own mouths…
transpero.net :: Labour – the hope for change. This, from "a site devoted to developing internet based resources for Labour Party members and supporters"; Labour's organisational crisis is deep. We have no money. We have too few experienced organisational staff. The real level of our membership is barely more than…
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Continue reading →: Some cynical nihilism
Some cynical nihilism, or, a revolution in the People’s Republic « THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF MORTIMER. Please read the linked post. It is very long and written by a LibDem, but it is quite possibly the best political blog post I have ever read. My congratulations to Alix Mortimer are…
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Continue reading →: Tony Blair decided to block de Menezes investigators
De Menezes inquest: Tony Blair backed decision to block investigators – Telegraph. Since when is the criminal justice system under the personal direction of the Prime Minister? It was wrong for Blair the Plod to ask the question. It was wrong for Blair the Ego to answer it. Guthrum suggests…
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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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