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Continue reading →: Justice must be seen to be done?
Link: Jean Charles de Menezes inquest: 44 police officers granted anonymity – Telegraph. If these policemen were employed by a totalitarian state (e.g. Zimbabwe) our press would call them a "death squad." Here, in our democracy, no-one even seems surprised that, not only will they face no criminal charges for…
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Continue reading →: UK Libertarians in SL
Yesterday Bag and I had the idea of opening a UK Libertarian Party office in Second Life. "No sooner said than done, so acts your man of worth;" within a couple of hours we had clearance from the party’s Director of Communications, I had identified premises, Bag had rented them…
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Continue reading →: Good news!
This past week has been an excellent one for me. Firstly Ms Paine the Elder achieved superb results in her second year exams at Cambridge University and won another academic prize. Secondly, the Labour Party lost its deposit at Henley, which I have hopes is just the beginning of the…
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Continue reading →: Whose side are the police on?
Link: Frank McCourt, a former soldier, charged for makling a citizens arrest – Telegraph. The linked story illustrates poignantly what has happened to our nation under Labour. There was a time when youths would have feared to act in such a way, because the local community would have dealt with…
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Continue reading →: Police force removal of English flags
Link: Wonko’s World » Blog Archive » Police force EDP to remove English flags. If, as alleged, she said of the Cross of St George “we don’t want that flag here in Henley,” then Henley’s town clerk, Miss Jules Samuels, is a disgrace. May Nelson’s shade keep her awake at…
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Continue reading →: Brown’s first anniversary marked with humiliating defeat
Link: Brown’s first anniversary marked with humiliating defeat in Henley byelection | Politics | guardian.co.uk. Britain’s ruling party lost its deposit. It was beaten so soundly that only the Guardian could be optimistic enough to speak of Brown’s "first anniversary" as if there might be a second. To hell with…
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Continue reading →: Steven Levitt on child car seats
http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf This seems to be an example of why we should be suspicious of forced legal solutions to emotionally-charged problems.
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Continue reading →: Not undemocratic; anti-democratic
When pro-EU friends smile ruefully or shrug their shoulders at the democratic deficit and blame it on a lack of engagement by the European electorate, show them this video. The leaders of the EU do not merely lack any sense of democratic accountability, they despise it. The Commissioners and their…
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Continue reading →: The really curious journey
Link: Marina Hyde: In bed with the DUP? This is the really curious journey | Comment is free | The Guardian. If I had doubts as to David Davis’s campaign, this Grauniad piece removed them. He has succeeded in starting a genuine debate even in Labour’s Pravda. Marina Hyde’s attack…
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Continue reading →: The Peoples’ Republic of Northern England
Mr Paine the Elder having reached his 70th birthday, I am back in England for a family party tomorrow. I arrived as usual at the municipal Airport of a Northern city. As we arrived at immigration, we found post office style posts and tapes over the whole area, but no…
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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