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Continue reading →: World markets “slump?”
Link: World markets slump as panic grips the banking sector | Business | guardian.co.uk. I love the way the Guardian’s journalists slag bloggers off as irresponsible and then write such tosh as the linked article. If I jumped off a cliff, fell 5% of the height and landed on a…
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Continue reading →: The Brown Jinx strikes again?
I seem to remember our PM backed the Paulson plan?
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Continue reading →: Congratulations, you own another bank
Link: Financial crisis: Bradford & Bingley to be nationalised by Treasury – Telegraph. I have never been happier to be a Russian taxpayer. We pay 13% flat tax and the Kremlin is talking of cuts to stimulate the economy in the face of the financial crisis. On the other hand,…
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Continue reading →: Jean-Charles; some hope at last?
Link: Jean Charles de Menezes shooting: Inquest begins – Telegraph. According to the Telegraph today The Metropolitan police's firearms and surveillance teams have hired separate lawyers and it is understood they may attack each other over aspects of the failed operation. In criminal law circles (as these police officers will…
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Continue reading →: Meeting Vittoria’s family
I am sorry for the lack of blogging. I have had a long run of beautiful, but internet-free, hotels. Since last Tuesday, I have driven from the North of England to Italy and back, via France Switzerland, Germany and now France again. I am still "on the road", having stopped…
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Continue reading →: Support for Kez?
Link: Where is the support for Kez? : Miserable Old Fart | The English Parliament – Building Jerusalem in England. It’s a bit rough to suggest that those of us who supported Bloggerheads when it was threatened with libel by oligarch Usmanov, are hypocrites because we haven’t also supported a…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Roundup: interesting first impressions
Link: Blogpower- Defending the Blogosphere: Blogpower roundup – interesting first impressions. Follow the link above for the latest Blogpower Roundup by Heather Yaxley of Greenbanana. My fellow Blogpower bloggers are doing sterling work and Heather has rounded up a good selection.
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Continue reading →: A Stealth Tax Compendium
Link: Garbagegate – A Stealth Tax Compendium. Many scoffed at the the new Libertarian Party’s first official policy – to abolish income tax. Yet their calculations suggested that, if UK government spending were reduced to the same level (in real terms) as when Labour took power, the savings would be…
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Continue reading →: Live blogging from St Pete
As part of our post-conference festivities, we are watching a musical performance on the tiny but perfect stage of the family’s private theatre at the Yusupov Palace in St Petersburg.
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Continue reading →: The trials of blogging life
Several of my favourite posts have been "live blogging" from interesting conferences I have been lucky enough to attend. Today could have been an excellent example but for two problems. Firstly, the topic was the political and economic situation in Russia. As regular readers know, I never write about modern…
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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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