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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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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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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…
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