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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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Continue reading →: Government to unveil rape law reforms
Link: Government to unveil rape law reforms | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited. On my reading list before my first year studying law was a great little book called Straight and Crooked Thinking by Robert Thouless. It did me more good than any other book I read at that time.…
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Continue reading →: untitled post 5279
I am delighted to say that there is now a TypePad “web app” for the iPhone that allows me to post to the Last Ditch on the move. This is my first such posting.
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Continue reading →: So not a “low level administrative error” then?
Link: Top officials decided to release bank details – Telegraph. What will voters make of the fact that the Government sought to make a scapegoat of an innocent junior employee? British voters may not care about civil liberties, cronyism or even corruption, but I suspect this will offend their sense…
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Continue reading →: DARLING SENDS 25 MILLION BANK RECORDS TO NIGERIAN DOCTOR
Link: The Daily Mash – DARLING SENDS 25 MILLION BANK RECORDS TO NIGERIAN DOCTOR. The always-amusing Daily Mash finds the humour in what is currently outraging the naive across the British blogosphere. To me, the incompetence of the State is a "given." As most of my fellow-citizens seem inclined to…
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Continue reading →: An Englishman’s Castle: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey! As Lord Emsworth would say.
Link: An Englishman’s Castle: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey! As Lord Emsworth would say.. The Englishman speaks for England: As I lean over the gate watching my Gloucester Old Spots fighting and squealing over the last apple in the swill trough my mind sometimes is drawn to Westminster….
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Continue reading →: Met to create politically correct mascots
Link: Met to create politically correct mascots – Telegraph. I am offended. I have been racially and sexually insulted. The person who said this police mascot is "too white" is a racist scumbag. How "white" would be acceptable to you, my friend? I am white and I am proud. Of…
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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.
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