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Continue reading →: Remembrance Day
Link: The Royal British Legion – Media Centre – Latest News – Remembrance – "Garden of Remembrance" established in virtual world. If you are not able to attend a remembrance service in real life, why not attend the one to be held at the 11th hour of the 11th day…
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Continue reading →: The Jean Charles memorial blog round up
For two years, my most unpopular blog posts have been about the summary execution of Jean Charles de Menezes. Many right of centre readers are instinctive supporters of the police. So am I, but this was neither British policing as we know it, nor as we should wish to know…
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Continue reading →: Sir Ian Blair’s behaviour is simply criminal
Link: Sir Ian Blair’s behaviour is simply criminal – Telegraph. Sir Ian Blair has no pride. How can he not resign when the following can be written about him? If the Beano had a leader column, it, too, would be calling for Sir Ian’s sacking, on the grounds that he…
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Continue reading →: Ron Paul for President
Until (as I hope and plan) I achieve American citizenship one day, this is none of my business. Still, I have to love America for the fact that a real libertarian candidate can not only run for President, but also raise the third largest campaign fund. Even in the land…
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Continue reading →: MET CHIEF REFUSES TO RESIGN AFTER SETTING FIRE TO TRAMP
Link: The Daily Mash – MET CHIEF REFUSES TO RESIGN AFTER SETTING FIRE TO TRAMP. I am tired of trying to explain the de Menezes case to a heartless nation. The Daily Mash says it all in the linked article, so much better than I can. In doing so, it…
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Continue reading →: Who really killed de Menezes? | David Aaronovitch – Times Online
Link: Who really killed de Menezes? | David Aaronovitch – Times Online. David Aaronovitch was more noted for rhetoric than reasoning when he was a Leftist National Union of Students "hack" in my university days. He was a smug "lefter than thou," faux-prole, sent-down-from Oxbridge, scruff then. He is a…
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Continue reading →: A picture of thousands of words
Late last year I posted a graph of this blog here. The java applet to create these graphs is to be found here. There is something strangely fascinating in watching the graphic form. I am not tecchie enough to understand what the different elements represent and now I am puzzled…
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Continue reading →: I am so much cooler online
Link: YouTube – Brad Paisley-Online. Embedding the official YouTube video of this is forbidden so you will just have to follow the link to enjoy country singer Brad Paisley nailing those of us who are "so much cooler online." If you just want to hear the song, you can just…
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Continue reading →: Pigdogfucker » Blog Archive » I have a barrel, I have a tuna, I have an AK47
Link: Pigdogfucker » Blog Archive » I have a barrel, I have a tuna, I have an AK47. My badge of honour for the month of October was the linked fisk by Pigdogfucker. It put me in mind of a quotation remembered from the shameful days of my Maoist youth;…
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Continue reading →: The deceit behind global warming
Link: The deceit behind global warming – Telegraph. Please read this, if only to get a flavour of the true character of Al Gore. Gore’s involvement in building a new justification for State Power after the final discrediting of Socialism began when, as a young Senator, he chaired Senate hearings…
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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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