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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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Continue reading →: Burning our money: What If There Is No Growth To Share?
Link: Burning our money: What If There Is No Growth To Share?. When Wat Tyler is on form, the rest of us might as well stay quiet. His "picture book version of the Forsyth Tax Commission Report" should be studied by all. I defy you to read the linked post…
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Continue reading →: Drug smuggling case to be heard without jury
Link: Drug smuggling case to be heard without jury – Telegraph. Readers who feel voluntary arbitration on sharia law principles is "the thin end of the wedge" for the future of the English legal system have missed the thin ends of so many more important wedges. Jury trial, for example,…
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Continue reading →: Téléchargez votre vin
Link: USBWINE : téléchargez votre vin en direct des domaines. H/T Croydonian. This really is brilliant. I am currently ordering a car which has a feature (reporting its tyre-pressures to a dashboard gauge) which, years ago, BMW featured in one of its superb April Fool ads. Now that joke is…
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Continue reading →: Adopt sharia law in Britain, says the Archbishop
Link: Adopt sharia law in Britain, says the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams – Telegraph. The responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech are more troubling than his words. Emotion has been exceeded only by ignorance. Khalid Mahmood, the Muslim Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, outrageously said: This…
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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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