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Continue reading →: Ends, ways and means
Political debate in Britain is often an argument between two stupidities (three if you count the LibDems). Democracy is all very well, but the peoples’ verdict on rival idiocies does not make the victorious idiot a clever man. Life is marvellous (compared to the alternative) but it is also full…
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Continue reading →: Harry’s Place is down
Link: Mr Eugenides: Harry’s Place taken down. This appears to be very bad news for the British political blogosphere. Mr Eugenides has the details. Much though I rarely agreed with a word written there, this is a voice that should not be silenced.
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Continue reading →: Yet more Gadding about
Link: Longrider » More Gadding About. Longrider’s analysis is excellent. Take a look. If paedophiles truly operated under the compulsion of a mental illness, they would not be criminals at all. They would deserve compassion. Legally they would be innocent and should never be imprisoned in the first place. If,…
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Continue reading →: So I am not the only one…
Link: Guy Fawkes’ blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Is Brown Bonkers?. …thinking that our Prime Minister is a halfpenny short of a shilling. Guido is nurturing the same doubts.
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Continue reading →: The face of British Authority
This man should be fired. Immediately. And then he should be barred from any public employment of any kind in this country. How dare he speak to a free man in the way that he did? Are there any policemen reading this who are prepared to justify his conduct? I…
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Continue reading →: Gadding about
Link: The Devil’s Kitchen: Gadding about. I said I felt obliged to write about the current paedophilia witch-hunt. I am positively quivering with rage at the way in which our detestable Home Secretary is playing on the prejudices of the unwashed and ignorant in the case of Paul Gadd, aka…
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Continue reading →: “From programming bits, to programming atoms…”
http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf I have said it before and will say it again, TED is one of the best sites on the internet. I turn to it for relief from the pessimism of the political world. While politicians continue to find ways to mess up even the simplest things, some scientists not…
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Continue reading →: We can’t afford our own defence?
Link: Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland. Just when the full extent of Francis Fukuyama’s idiocy is finally becoming apparent, the UK government’s financial incompetence is compromising the defence of the realm. Right now, the government should be cutting every public sector job involving tasks too vague for concrete tests of successful…
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Continue reading →: What the Left tells you about the Olympics tells you about the Left
Link: Stephen Moss, Kira Cochrane and Simon Burnton provide the answers to intriguing questions about the Olympics | Sport | The Guardian. The Guardian’s Q&A about the Olympics today is psychologically revealing. Individual Leftists may be sport fans, but collectively it’s a political problem for them. If you believe in…
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Continue reading →: Has the Prime Minister had a nervous breakdown?
Mock the Week is maturing into an excellent satire show. If satire is returning, a Conservative government must be imminent. During Conservative governments we get such wonders as Spitting Image and Not the Nine o’clock News. During Labour – as the luvvies refuse to attack "their boys" – we get…
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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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