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Continue reading →: Economists condemn Chancellor’s spending plan
Economists condemn Chancellor Alistair Darling's spending plan – Telegraph. I don't understand how so many of us can obsess about trivia, when the situation in our country is as follows; Public borrowing is already the highest it has been since 1946, reaching £37.6bn in the first half of the year.…
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Continue reading →: The Daily Mash is off form
Weekending – The Daily Mash. As regular readers know, I am a fan of the Daily Mash. Today, however, it is not being brilliantly satirical as usual, it's just being rude. I hope the day never arrives when we "satirise" male politicians in such terms. I look forward to the…
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Continue reading →: Lord Mandelson and the passive voice
Lord Mandelson admits public were misled over relationship with Russian oligarch – Telegraph. I have remarked before that, during my brief stint as a criminal lawyer, I noticed that the bad guys are fond of the passive voice. Thus, not "I deceived the public", but "the public were [sic] deceived."…
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Continue reading →: Sterling plummets, but all we care about is Deripaska’s yacht
Sterling plummets on the back of Brown's debt-fuelled economy | Coffee House. Can someone explain to me why the MSM is entirely focussed on the social lives of a couple of freeloading fools, when -as a nation- we are staring down the barrel of a financial gun? How can Brown's…
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Continue reading →: Time will tell if she is history, Norm
normblog: She's history. I like reading Normblog. Norman Geras may always be wrong on any subject but cricket (and quite often on that), but he writes well. His blog is a place where I can keep up to date with the thinking of my opponents, without the usual strain on…
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Continue reading →: Recession alert sends pound to five-year low
Recession alert sends pound to five-year low | Business | The Guardian. Britain's recession will be longer and deeper, because Britons are more indebted. They won't be purchasing goods or services above or beyond the essentials, because they now have to pay back the debts incurred during what I think…
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Continue reading →: Compare & Contrast
If you are employees of the British State, you may kill and neither be brought to trial nor named. Everyone else accused of a crime must endure the publicity until acquitted at trial. Before those who cannot distinguish between an accusation and a proven fact rant in the comments, let…
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Continue reading →: Centuries of British freedoms being ‘broken’
Link: Centuries of British freedoms being ‘broken’ by security state, says Sir Ken Macdonald – Telegraph. Essentially I started this blog to light my candle in the encroaching darkness of the British "security state." Under cover of 9/11, our government has been transforming our society in completely unacceptable ways. Follow…
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Continue reading →: What a brilliant idea!
Link: UK Libertarian Party: They Are Not Listening – Time for Action. The UK Libertarian Party is organising for each MP to receive a copy of 1984 by George Orwell on November 5th. Click on the link above to learn all about it. Many sponsors will be delivering their copy…
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Continue reading →: Journalistic Armageddon
Link: FT.com / Home UK / UK – Last-ditch effort to save a column from Armageddon. I noticed years ago that every time I read an article about something I knew, it was wrong. I am not sure why it took so long to realise that all the other articles…
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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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