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Continue reading →: Leadership, set to music.
I am at a "leadership retreat" in St Petersburg, where we 80 or so attendees are supposed to learn not just about our industry, but how to be better leaders. The presentations so far have been interesting and the company is fascinating. Tonight we dine in some Russian palace or…
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Continue reading →: EU accounts not signed off for the 14th consecutive year
Link: EU accounts not signed off – News Story – Conservative Party. The management of my firm would not survive one second if our auditors refused to sign off the accounts just once. Why should the incompetent leadership of the EU be in any better position? Did they steal the…
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Continue reading →: Lembit Öpik: Revenge of the Nerds
Link: Lembit Öpik: The Segway PT is a clean, quick, safe and simple solution to our transport problems | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. One might have thought that Lembit Öpik had a big enough image problem already. Certainly, of all the politicians who might have come out as users…
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Continue reading →: Jean Charles de Menezes inquest to be held
Link: stroppyblog: Guest post on Jean Charles de Menezes campaign. I am always pleased to see others blogging about this case. Sorry I didn't link earlier but I only found this post via the Britblog Roundup over at Philobiblon.
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Continue reading →: The Blogpower Roundup, from Question That
Link: Question That: Seen Elsewhere (15). Follow the link for a roundup by Ian Q_T of Question That of the best recent posts from the Blogpower cooperative.
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Continue reading →: Weep for humanity
Link: davidthompson: When Hippies Weep. …that it should have degenerated to this extent. http://embed.break.com/NTY1ODY0http://view.break.com/565864 – Watch more free videos
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Continue reading →: Anti-terrorism laws used to spy on children/Children used to spy on the rest of us
Link: Anti-terrorism laws used to spy on noisy children – Telegraph. Not so much mission creep as mission leap? What can one expect, however, from a society prepared to recreate the Young Pioneers or the Hitler-Jugend? How long before socialist Britain finds its Pavlik Morozov? It is to the great…
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Continue reading →: Perverting the Course of Justice
Link: Amazon.co.uk: Perverting the Course of Justice: The Hilarious and Shocking Inside Story of British Policing: The Hilarious and Shocking Inside World of British Policing: 0: Inspector Gadget: Books. Long my favourite public service blogger, Inspector Gadget seems to be in difficulty. A post about his new book was taken…
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Continue reading →: The most brilliant of the Useful Idiots?
Link: Amazon.co.uk: Man Who Loved China, THE: Simon Winchester: Books. One reason I have posted so little in recent days is that I have been lost in this splendid biography. Joseph Needham, Companion of Honour, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the British Academy and holder of the Chinese…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower roundup
Link: The People’s Republic of Birmingham. The Blogpower cooperative is doing great work these days. Thanks to the quiet, sterling efforts of our admins JMB and Colin, I have never been happier to be a member. I have therefore been shamefully remiss in not directing you to the occasional "Blogpower…
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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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