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Continue reading →: Yes, but which city?
Further to my previous post, it seems Paris is the big city for me. There was no question about speedy Mac repairs though… You Belong in Paris Stylish and expressive, you were meant for Paris. The art, the fashion, the wine! Whether you’re enjoying the cafe life or a beautiful…
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Continue reading →: Why I love big cities
The day before yesterday, in Frankfurt airport, I knocked my heavy suitcase onto my briefcase and damaged the screen of my trusty laptop, a MacBook Pro. Struggling with the one corner of the screen which worked, I emailed my secretary to find an Apple dealer in Moscow who could fix…
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Continue reading →: Secret Inquests
Link: Window on the World: INQUEST condemnation. Step by step we move toward a police state. Why would a government want an inquest into a suspicious death to be held in secret using government-nominated lawyers? Might it be, perhaps, that the suspicion in question falls on itself? These are powers…
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Continue reading →: Top US accountability officer quits over job constraints
Link: Top US accountability officer quits over job constraints – Yahoo! News. Perhaps I spoke too soon in lauding the US system of government for allowing its Comptroller General to inform the voting public of the true, dire, state of the nation’s finances. The gentleman in question, David Walker, is…
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Continue reading →: Beware the sanitisation of public debate
Link: Taking Liberties – Simon Clark – Home – Beware the sanitisation of public debate. Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas, makes some very good points about free speech. Do read the whole thing. And while you are over there, why not sign up for a feed from…
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Continue reading →: Max, 19, hits the road
Link: Max, 19, hits the road | Travelog | Guardian Unlimited. Like everyone else, I went to this Guardian "blog" to laugh at the comments about Max Gogarty (son of travel correspondent Paul Gogarty) who is having his gap year travel subsidised by his Dad’s employer. In return, he is…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Common Room
Link: Blogpower: Blogpower Common Room. I have made available a meeting place in Second Life for members of Blogpower. Just click this link to be taken to a page which will (if you are a "resident" of Second Life) open your software and take you straight to the room. It’s…
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Continue reading →: YouTube – GAO: “USA is living beyond its means”
Link: YouTube – GAO: "USA is living beyond its means". I don’t feature this video to gloat at the financial mess the USA is in. After "the Greatest Generation" came "the Greedy Generation" which lavished unfunded benefits on itself. It happened in Britain even more than in America. My generation…
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Continue reading →: Absolutely, incredibly, utterly wrong! (or is it?)
Link: Absolutely, incredibly, utterly wrong! | Anatole Kaletsky – Times Online. Anatole Kaletsky’s analysis of the Northern Rock disaster says it all on the economics of the matter. He seems to miss the politics, however. He asks why the Government should put £100 billion on the line to save 6,000…
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Continue reading →: Pupils ‘pass’ language exam without speaking
Link: Pupils ‘pass’ language exam without speaking – Telegraph. I know the main thesis of libertarianism is too tough for most people to accept. We have been conditioned by 60 years of Socialist government to believe that a caring society requires a powerful state. Indeed, most of us hopelessly confuse…
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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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