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Continue reading →: Eco Fuel?
Link: The Poor Mouth: Oily Grail Part II – Bacteria that “shit” petrol.. Thanks to Jams for drawing my attention to this story. Maybe it won’t be this particular technology (though it sounds promising) but I am confident that some technology or other will eventually prove to be the answer…
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Continue reading →: Luke’s Blog: An idea
Link: Luke’s Blog: An idea. Many bloggers are keen to improve their traffic. Few would consider public resignation from the human race as a stratagem to achieve it. Luke Akehurst appears to be one of those few. How else to explain his amazing "idea?" The idea is perfectly emblematic of…
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Continue reading →: David Davis resigns
Link: Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigns to force by-election – Times Online. Labour can counter David Davis’s gesture by simply not running a candidate. We shall see how his political gambit plays out but, whatever the outcome, we must respect what he says. It is worrying that the Times…
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Continue reading →: Polly Toynbee; deftly bypassing reality
Link: Polly Toynbee: Cameron deftly bypasses the hard politics of the family | Comment is free | The Guardian. How can a supposedly intelligent person defy logic her whole life? Here is La Toynbee on the subject of Conservatives and their sacred cow, "the family." Quite reasonably, she points out…
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Continue reading →: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
Link: Amazon.co.uk: The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid: Books. My wife recommended this book to me. There was a time I recommended books to her, but the other demands of my life have now made her my literary pathfinder. It has lain for some months on the "to read" pile that…
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Continue reading →: Delicious schadenfreude
Link: Labour Party could be bankrupt in three weeks – Telegraph. As anyone could have predicted, the unions are demanding obedience in return for bailing Labour out. Much as the pleasing symmetry of the party being financially as well as ideologically bankrupt might appeal to many of its victims, it…
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Continue reading →: On the virtual red carpet
On July 1st, 2007 Blogpower hosted a virtual awards ceremony in Second Life. The idea was to present trophies to the bloggers who had won Blogpower Awards in such serious categories as "Best Britblogger" or "Best North American Blogger" as well as in less serious ones such as "Best Ranter".…
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Continue reading →: Longer detention is about saving the public
Link: Longer detention is about saving the public – Telegraph. The author of the linked piece was until recently head of Scotland Yard’s "counter terrorism command." Carefully selecting a case in which his suspicions had proved to be true (how many times were they wrong, I wonder), he dramatically recounts…
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Continue reading →: A luvvie laments
Link: Britons are puritans and philistines, laments Sir Peter Hall – Telegraph. Seeing Sir Peter’s productions in my youth made me the theatre lover I am today. He and Trevor Nunn are national treasures; every bit as much as the great actors of the last generation Hall lauds in the…
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Continue reading →: How lame is this?
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4txw4&related=1Lipdub Europe United par les Jeunes Européens – FranceUploaded by JeunesEuropeensFrance If this is the sales pitch for a federal EU, what on earth would the reality be like? The video is every bit as lame as their case. It is so cringe worthy that it takes a strong will…
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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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