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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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Continue reading →: Old Holborn is going for a walk
Link: Old Holborn: My walk – DETAILS. Old Holborn is going for a walk on November 5th. If I were in London that day, I would join him. If you are going to be there, perhaps you would like to?
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Continue reading →: Britain a dangerous place to do business?
Link: Britain a dangerous place to do business, OECD to warn – Telegraph. See how the mighty have fallen. As a lawyer doing business in emerging markets, some of which are less than favourably rated by Transparency International, I sometimes have to ask local business people to sign provisions in…
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Continue reading →: Pensioner ordered to stop mowing grass
Link: Pensioner ordered to stop mowing grass because it’s too tidy – Telegraph. The most interesting part of this everyday story of petty tyranny is the wording of the council’s comment to the press "We apologise if he feels the letter he received from us is heavy-handed. We are happy…
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Continue reading →: Wonderland
The last few weeks have been disorienting. I have been through recessions before and this feels only slightly different. Yet people really seem to believe – and to want to believe – it is the end of capitalism. To me there is only one difference to previous recessions; the level…
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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