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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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Continue reading →: Sub-prime Bohemian Rhapsody
I received this from one of my clients today. It really needs to be sung aloud… Is this the real price? Is this just fantasy? Financial landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes And look at your buys and see. I’m now a poor boy High-yielding casualty Because I…
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Continue reading →: Addiction to internet ‘is an illness’
Link: Addiction to internet ‘is an illness’ | Technology | The Observer. Are scholars addicted to their libraries? Artists to their brushes? Writers to their pens? Of course not. Show me a successful person, and I will show you someone Dr Jerald Block would consider "obsessive". The world is shaped…
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Continue reading →: BMA wants nurses to address patients formally
Link: BMA wants nurses to address patients formally – Telegraph. This is the first sense the BMA has uttered in some time. These things actually matter. It’s easier to neglect or ignore a person with whom you are on first name terms. Ask any long-married couple if you don’t believe…
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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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