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Continue reading →: Guilt by association?
Link: Diary | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited. Guilt by association anybody? Pay close attention to the use of the passive voice in the linked article as various leftist luminaries complain of the way they were treated by members of the public at a public meeting. Frankly, given the damage…
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Continue reading →: Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day
Link: Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day – Telegraph. Every time I try to convince myself that my concerns about the state of Britain are simply those that middle-aged men have had since Shakespeare first coined the phrase "going to the dogs," a story like this appears.…
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Continue reading →: Leaked Home Office memo on ID.
Link: Shades of Grey » Voluntary my Arse!. All praise to Ian and his cohorts for hosting a leaked memo from the Home Office, which the excellent No2ID campaign fears may be suppressed by injunction. As I am safely in Russia (and my blog is hosted in the United States)…
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Continue reading →: Tory Derek Conway gave £260,000 to family
Link: Tory Derek Conway gave £260,000 to family – Telegraph. The gods have given David Cameron a chance. Today he can prove he is a better leader than the despondent ditherer from Fife. He should withdraw the Conservative Whip from Mr. Conway forthwith and quite possibly file a report with…
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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday Tom
Today is the 271st birthday of the greatest political pamphleteer in history, Thomas Paine. He was born in Thetford, Norfolk on 29th January 1737. He was instrumental in forging the institutions of two of the most important free nations; France and the U.S.A. Not bad for a corset-maker, though his…
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Continue reading →: Davos celebrates
Link: The Daily Mash – DAVOS CELEBRATES ANOTHER YEAR OF FRANTIC MASTURBATION. The Daily Mash (who are these guys? – their "about" page is strangely coy) continues to set the standards for British satire. How I chuckled as I set off for the airport to return to the relative sanity…
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Continue reading →: Case study: The £120,000 couple
Link: Case study: The £120,000 couple – Telegraph. The Telegraph is supposed to be a Conservative paper, but this feature today reveals how socialist thinking has penetrated British souls. Wealth is not a high wage, but enough capital to produce an above average income. "Shopping at Waitrose" does not equal…
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Continue reading →: In a quiet county town
Yesterday, three men attacked the sole security guard outside the door of a jewellery store in a small county town in the North of England. Normally there are two guards, but one was on his lunch break. Evidently the store and the habits of its guards were under observation. A…
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Continue reading →: Distinguishing right from legal
Link: MPs can’t distinguish right from legal – Telegraph. When I studied criminal law at university, fellow students considered me old-fashioned because I had a problem with "offences of strict liability;" i.e. those where the legislature had removed the element of intent from the definition of the crime, so that…
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Continue reading →: President Tone
This sent me off to my work smiling today. h/t The Thunder Dragon
THE LAST DITCH
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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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