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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
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Continue reading →: The psychology of a libertarian
Sometimes I worry that my personal response to state power is a matter of psychology, not reason. My parents were strict. Though essentially a charming and well-behaved boy, I spent my childhood always “in the wrong.” It was meant kindly, of course, but independence came as a relief. I set…
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Continue reading →: ‘Terror law plans to be unveiled’
Link: ‘Terror law plans to be unveiled’. For once the craven, useless BBC tells the truth, albeit inadvertently. These are indeed "terror laws." We should all be more afraid of them than we are of the hapless, if fanatical, incompetents of Al Qaeda who far more frequently blow themselves up…
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Continue reading →: Three cheers for the fighting Irish
Link: How three robbers fled after victim fought back – Telegraph. This self-made, self-reliant gentleman (God bless him) is the human material for a great nation. Starting with £30 in his pocket, he has created wealth and jobs and kept his spirit, despite every depredation of the parasitical idlers and…
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Continue reading →: Gordon Brown’s Black Wednesday | Anatole Kaletsky – Times Online
Link: Gordon Brown’s Black Wednesday | Anatole Kaletsky – Times Online. Just for once, the most trenchant political commentary of the day is not in the blogosphere. Anatole Kaletsky in The Times – for so long a propaganda organ for New Labour at the behest of its owner, the Dirty…
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Continue reading →: Leaving medicine
Link: NHS Blog Doctor: Leaving medicine. Socialists will tell you that "boom and bust" is a capitalist phenomenon, but if you want real "feast or famine" try central planning. After sucking in foreign doctors for years, the UK’s central planners girded up their loins and achieved a surplus of trained…
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Continue reading →: Visiting Switzerland
The partners in my group are meeting in Switzerland this weekend. I have never liked skiing, but the views from the terrace are nice…
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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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