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Continue reading →: 4 David Davis 4 Freedom: Terrorism -vs- Freedom
Link: 4 David Davis 4 Freedom: Terrorism -vs- Freedom. I am happy to have been invited to post at the 4 David Davis 4 Freedom blog. The linked article is my first contribution.
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Continue reading →: Romanian town elects dead man as mayor
Link: Romanian town elects dead man as mayor | World news | guardian.co.uk. This seems a sensible political choice to me. He won’t be doing this or this or this, will he?
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Continue reading →: A new blogger for Liberty
Link: David Davis – Home. It is a pleasure to welcome to the soon to be ex-Member for Haltemprice & Howden to the libertarian blogosphere. Something tells me we shall be hearing a lot from him.
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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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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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
Maybe they should be legally required to only provide halal to muslims or those that request it. If you are…
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