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Continue reading →: National Debt
Link: The Devil’s Kitchen: National Debt. Don’t click through to the linked post if you are offended by bad language or economic mismanagement. Frankly, the details of the latter are so shocking, that you will be a sensitive soul indeed if you even notice The Devil’s Kitchen’s foul language.…
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Continue reading →: Pension details of 6,500 lost in new data fiasco
Link: Pension details of 6,500 lost in new data fiasco – Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph says the Government is "reeling." In what sense? Lord Denning used to say that he had "all the Christian virtues, except resignation." The members of this Government don’t have that, or any other, virtue. They…
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Continue reading →: NHS may deny care to woman over Avastin
Link: NHS may deny care to woman over Avastin – Telegraph. Our Government does not believe in the death penalty for murder or even treason. However, it is ready to sentence a woman to death if she pays for a drug which the National Health Service cannot afford. Her crime,…
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Continue reading →: Chief scientist in sports cars warning to women
Link: Chief scientist in sports cars warning to women – Telegraph. It’s official. The Government acknowledges no boundaries to its role in our lives. Now it is trying to tell women to which men they should be sexually attracted. One can’t help wondering if they are being disinterested though. Does…
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Continue reading →: Crowds flock to see Magna Carta
Link: Crowds flock to see Magna Carta manuscripts – Telegraph. I am delighted large crowds came to see four originals of Magna Carta on display. I am pleasantly surprised there are so many Britons who care; who must at some level understand its significance. It is a globally significant document;…
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Continue reading →: The end of the Union
The Daily Telegraph is running a campaign to save the Union. It is too late. Nor is this a matter to be decided, as the Scots and Welsh seem to think, by them alone. The Union is ours too and we can decide if we want it to continue, just…
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Continue reading →: Study finds commercialism harms Britain’s kids
Link: Study finds commercialism harms Britain’s kids – Telegraph. Why does a serious, supposedly right wing, newspaper give credence to a study producing anti-capitalist results, commissioned by the National Union of Teachers? For that matter, why should anyone take seriously an organisation telling us that "Commercialism" is bad for our…
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Continue reading →: Which sci-fi character am I?
John Sheridan An experienced survivor who has maneuvered around many obstacles, you are looked up to by those who rely on your good judgment. In the last few years, we’ve stumbled. We stumbled at the death of the president, the war, and on and on. When you stumble a lot…
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Continue reading →: Doris Lessing warns of ‘inanities’ of internet
Link: Doris Lessing warns of inanities of internet – Telegraph. She might as well complain of the inanities of paper. The medium is not, however clever-clever it might have been to say so, the message. That I may now find from my laptop, that which it would have taken me…
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Continue reading →: Jeremy Clarkson clashes with ‘hoodies’ – Telegraph
Link: Jeremy Clarkson clashes with ‘hoodies’ – Telegraph. Jeremy’s words make the problem with Britain clear: "I was standing there holding this boy by the scruff of his neck, and instead of worrying about being stabbed I was actually thinking, ‘I’m going to get done for assault if I’m not…
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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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