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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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Continue reading →: Teddy teacher freed after “pardon”
Link: Teddy teacher freed after pardon – Telegraph. Have we no dignity left as a nation? After the humiliating way in which certain Royal Marines conducted themselves in the hands of the Iranians last April, now "the teddy teacher" Gillian Gibbons feels the need to apologise to the very people…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Round-up No 4 – Advent Edition
Link: Nobody Important: Blogpower Round-up No 4 — Advent Edition. Don’t miss the Advent Edition of the Blogpower Round-up over at "Nobody Important." It’s a sterling piece of work by JMB, showcasing the best and the brightest of Blogpower.
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Continue reading →: Quote of the day
Link: Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Eat, drink and be miserable: the true cost of our addiction to shopping. Commenting on Madeleine Bunting’s sick Stalinist fantasy (linked article in the Guardian – where else?) of a "low consumption" society in which Government engages in "a massive propaganda exercise…
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Continue reading →: Rape Conviction Rates
Link: Rape Conviction Rates. Following on from my post yesterday, Tim Worstall posts about a Times article reporting that conviction rates for rape are higher than for murder. The figures bandied about by politicians and "activists" are the percentage of accusations leading to conviction, not the percentage of cases brought…
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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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