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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…
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Continue reading →: Are UK Immigration authorities racist…
… or is rape a less serious offence than insider dealing? Or perhaps UK law enforcers simply like soft targets? Or maybe the people planning to meet one American visitor are less likely to vote Labour than those planning to meet the other one? Or perhaps they care less about…
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Continue reading →: Emma Watson on Education – aargh.
Link: Chanel: ‘No contract’ for Harry Potter’s Emma Watson – Telegraph. These are the saddest words I have read this week and should disqualify the young actress who uttered them from a place at any serious University. "I feel it’s terribly important to continue with my education," she said. "In…
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Continue reading →: “The noble Lord would say that, wouldn’t he?”
Link: Mr Eugenides: "The noble Lord would say that, wouldn’t he?". If it is true that the holders of EU pensions "… can lose them if they fail to uphold the EU’s interests or bring the EU into disrepute" the interesting question is "why?" What on Earth goes on in…
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Continue reading →: Democracy?
A YouGov survey, conducted for Open Europe this week, shows that 14 per cent thought the Government should ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Indeed, only 29% of British people even want to stay in the European Union. So what does "our" Parliament do….? On a lighter note an Irish MEP reminds…
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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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