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Continue reading →: Prudence?
Link: Labour cash crisis could bankrupt party leaders | Politics | The Guardian. Exactly how did Labour voters expect such a bunch of spendthrift incompetents to behave in charge of the nation’s finances? With so many lawyers amongst the Labour luvvies, it’s really rather surprising that the party is organised…
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Continue reading →: Britain’s rubbish rules
Link: How should we overhaul Britain’s rubbish rules? – Telegraph. Planet Earth calling the British middle classes! Please read all the idiotic comments against the linked piece in the Telegraph and then note this fact – reported by a family member in the Labour North who has no reason to…
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Continue reading →: Fantasy politics?
Link: The answer’s obvious: cut taxes and spending – Telegraph. This is the first conservative article I have seen in the Daily Telegraph for some time. It’s written by a Labour MP from the North of England’s socialist heartlands. I am stunned, frankly. Were we libertarians to write of "…the…
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Continue reading →: Spinning a yarn?
Link: Illegal immigration ‘fleet’ has only one van – Telegraph. We will not restore faith in British politics until the press stops allowing politicians, like Humpty-Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland, to have words mean whatever they want them to mean. "Spin" is legitimate political art. It involves presenting facts in…
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Continue reading →: “best-performing” towns
Link: ‘Cornwall best-performing seaside town for house price rise’ – Telegraph. Britain has many problems, but the least explicable for me is the national obsession with house prices. The linked article is, when you think about it, really rather disgusting. Shelter is a basic human need, yet according to the…
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Continue reading →: Chelsea sack Avram Grant as manager
Link: Chelsea sack Avram Grant as manager – Football News – Telegraph. Politicians think theirs is a tough game, but is it really? I wonder what goes through the mind of our football following Prime Minister when he reads of Chelsea’s ruthless sacking of Avram Grant? Grant led his…
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Continue reading →: When positive thinking goes wrong
Link: US elections: Hillary Clinton apologises for assassination gaffe – Telegraph. I dislike Hillary Clinton, both as a politician and as a human being, but I feel sorry for her this morning. I understand why she made this terrible error. Self-belief is a necessary but not sufficient pre-condition of success.…
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Continue reading →: Tories take Crewe & Nantwich
Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | Tories snatch Crewe from Labour. This is a fairly amazing result. I could hardly have been more wrong. I shall not even try to think about what it would mean if translated into General Election terms; it’s just too ridiculous. I can’t help feeling…
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Continue reading →: Chelsea fans battle police after defeat (but not in Moscow)
Link: Champions League final: Chelsea fans battle police after defeat to Manchester United – Telegraph. The biggest change in Britain in my lifetime has been the development of a culture which excuses all kinds of misconduct by reference to "social factors", "alcohol", "drugs" or whatever. I have never bought it.…
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Continue reading →: Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras
Link: Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras – Telegraph. David Davis is no libertarian, so this news is quite a surprise. Another good policy from the Tories though. Credit where it’s due. What a shame that the question of whether CCTV monitoring of innocent citizens is wrong, is…
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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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