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Continue reading →: What has this to do with the the state (or me?)
Link: Tory MP Alan Duncan to enter civil partnership – Telegraph. I wish Alan Duncan and his partner every happiness today. I don’t know anything about Mr. Dunseath, but Mr Duncan seems a nice, amusing chap and I am happy for him that he has a relationship he wants to…
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Continue reading →: If Glasgow East isn’t a Labour seat…
Link: BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | SNP stuns Labour in Glasgow East. …where is? Is this the end of triangulation in British politics, with the core vote taken for granted by New Labour finally biting back? Does it signal the end of the United Kingdom?…
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Continue reading →: Labour have failed to control binge drinking. No ****, Sherlock
Link: Labour have failed to control binge drinking – News Story – Conservative Party. I was a member of the Conservative Party for years. I led my University’s Conservative association to control of our student union. I have an instinctive affiliation with the party. Knowing that I will probably not…
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Continue reading →: The Englishman on “Saint Al”
Link: An Englishman’s Castle: Balance on Channel 4. I have said this often to my friends and colleagues, but have never published it. The Englishman’s post stimulated to me to write it in a comment over at his Castle, so I reproduce it here (with apologies for quoting myself); Al…
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Continue reading →: Dr. Dragan Dabic’s Website
Link: Dr. Dragan Dabic – Neuropsihijatar i Bioenergeticar – Neuropsychiatry, Alternative Medicine and Energy, Eastern Meditation, Yoga, Spiritual Cleansing, Chinese Medicine, Medicinal Herbs and Macrobiotic Diet. Here’s an interesting website to check out before it goes down. I have always thought you have to be careful about some of these…
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Continue reading →: Michel Roux, French chef, quits Britain
Link: Michel Roux, French chef, quits Britain for safer Switzerland – Telegraph. Michel Roux should have been knighted and feted and given the Freedom of the City of Westminster. Perhaps even elevated to the House of Lords. Instead, after 40 years, the most important fact about him to the Telegraph…
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Continue reading →: The strange joys of blogging
Link: The Truth Laid Bear. After over three years of blogging labour I have worked my way up from being "an Insignificant Microbe" in The Truth Laid Bear’s blogging "ecosystem" until yesterday, briefly, I was ranked as "a Large Mammal". Today I am back to being a "Marauding Marsupial" and…
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Continue reading →: Shrugging off billions, while the press looks on
Link: Billions wasted and they just shrug it off – Telegraph. I was pleased to read such a piece in the Daily Telegraph, albeit in the obscure "opinion" section. 90% of the article is comprised of hard facts, so presumably it’s "opinion" because it calls for heads to roll? These…
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Continue reading →: Vote for your Top Ten Blogs
Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: Guide to Political Blogs 2008-9: Vote for your Top Ten Blogs. It’s the awards season and bloggers everywhere affect insouciance. However, I am sure we all want the results to be free, fair and based on a better turnout than a local election. So please get…
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Continue reading →: What has the Met learned from Menezes death?
Link: Terrorism: Met 'has not learned' from Menezes death | UK news | The Guardian. Next week is the third anniversary of the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. Some will object to my choice of the word "murder." In England, a killing is murder if two elements are present…
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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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