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Continue reading →: Some days restore your faith
Yesterday was my last night in China – for a while. I have learned a lot about business prospects here and not all of it was good. Still, I hope to come again. Shanghai is a great city. I visited professional colleagues to discuss business. Then I went shopping for…
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Continue reading →: Second impressions of China
I am enjoying my visit to China. Unfortunately my ignorance of the language makes it difficult to escape the protective bubble in which I am living. The organisers of the conference I am attending bussed us to a way-too-cool for me night club last night. It will probably never recover…
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Continue reading →: Dr Crippen is unwell
Link: NHS Blog Doctor: Dr Crippen is unwell. How strange. At least one blogspot blog can be accessed from Shanghai. Is the Great Firewall breached, or do the censors favour NHS blogs? The NHS Blog Doctor – Doctor Crippen – is feeling a little peeky today. Having lambasted the Taxpayers’…
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Continue reading →: Rachel speaks sooth
From China I can’t get to her blog but Rachel from North London has both told it like it is and fed enough of it to RSS for me to read it. I want to send you there and I want you, if you please, to do exactly as she…
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Continue reading →: Badge of honour?
The internet was supposed (among myriad benefits) to make the life of totalitarians more difficult. Information would flow freely and censors would be frustrated. Sadly, what technology can set free, it can also cage. I fancy there would be few government computers in the Peoples’ Republic of Scotland United Kingdom,…
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Continue reading →: First impressions of China
It’s not easy to come to China with an open mind. This is the oldest continuous civilisation on our planet (second oldest if you insist on counting the Australian Aborigines) and we all have firm ideas about it. For most of human history it was the leading nation. There were…
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Continue reading →: Light blogging
I shall be hors de combat for a day or so as I am travelling to Shanghai on business. The next post should be my first from a communist country (apart from Scotland of course). Sorry Bill.
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Continue reading →: Does this make you excited or uncomfortable?
http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf Answers in comments, please.
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Continue reading →: Heathrow Terminal 5 fingerprint plans illegal
Link: Heathrow Terminal 5 fingerprint plans ‘illegal’ – Telegraph. I was planning to assault someone I don’t like tomorrow. Having been advised that this would be illegal, I have put my plan on hold.
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Continue reading →: ‘BBC website ‘unblocked in China”
Link: ‘BBC website \’unblocked in China\”. Given how far left the BBC is, one wonders why the Chinese ever bothered. There are probably more people in the BBC who sincerely believe in Marxism than are to be found in all of China.The Chinese government could save itself a world of…
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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.
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“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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