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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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Continue reading →: Liveblogging Philosophy
Bernhard-Henri Levy is addressing the conference I am attending and speaking of the relationship between America and France. He told an amusing story about flying with John Kerry’s entourage with a view to interviewing him for a book. This was three days before Kerry lost the Presidential election. Time after…
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Continue reading →: Shall the twain ever meet?
Today I attended a debate between businessmen and academics advocating investment in China vs India. The audience was told to imagine it had $500 million to invest and must choose between the two countries. I thought the result was a clear win for China, though the chairman diplomatically declared it…
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Continue reading →: Liveblogging economics in Paris
Evan Davis, the BBC Economics Editor is addressing the conference I am attending in Paris. My God, but he’s condescending. He is so used to addressing the peasantry on IngSoc TV that he seemingly cannot adjust to an intelligent audience. The moderator praised him for "making complicated things seem simple,"…
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Continue reading →: The UK Libertarian Party
Link: The UK Libertarian Party – Welcome. Britain has a new political party, which I am glad to be able to support. Membership is only £10 (though feel free to contribute more). Follow the link for details. There is, no doubt, a long road ahead. Taking on the established political…
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Continue reading →: Falling in love again…
My test drive was a most diverting experience. The Granturismo is shorter and narrower than my present car, but the interior is elegant and comfortable. In sport mode, this is a fierce machine. The sense of raw power ("in reserve, of course, officer") is reassuring. Out of sport mode, however,…
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Continue reading →: Today in Paris
I am off to Paris today to take part in a conference. I am thinking of changing my car and, before settling down to the serious business of the week, will be road testing this little beauty around the Arc de Triomphe. My choice of cars is limited by how…
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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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