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Continue reading →: Catching up
For a man who prides himself on his time management skills, my life has been messy of late. Posting has been light while I straightened things out. Real Life duties are now more or less under control. Over a holiday weekend in Russia, I am now catching up on my…
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Continue reading →: Libertarians are the True Social Parasites?!
Link: Monbiot.com » Libertarians are the True Social Parasites. This may just be the most offensive piece of twaddle the Guardian has ever published. From a newspaper that enjoys the services of Polly Toynbee, that is a big claim. Monbiot delights sneeringly in the hypocrisy of Matt Ridley, who went…
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Continue reading →: ‘Menezes ‘aggressive’ to officers’
Link: 'Menezes \'aggressive\' to officers'. What an interesting definition of "aggressive". In our New Labour police state, it appears to mean "not submissive." Jean-Charles de Menezes reacted to being attacked by strangers in plain clothes exactly as a free man would. For this, he died. At least he died a…
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Continue reading →: A Guardian article I can agree with…
Link: Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | The stench of impunity wafts over the final act in this cash-for-honours farce. Since 1997 every official inquiry into alleged government misconduct has been entrusted to loyalists, patsies and payroll wallahs. The parallel success has been to silence Tory criticism about Labour…
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Continue reading →: Prodicus: Dear Foreign Secretary,
Link: Prodicus: Dear Foreign Secretary,. Gentle readers, may I commend you to the linked post by Prodicus? This sort of thing is what the British political blogosphere is for. Though he himself feels he may have gone "a little over the top", I beg to differ. We have lived to…
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Continue reading →: After the interesting results obtained by my friends, this is something of a let-down
What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com
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Continue reading →: Personalities and Politics
Link: Mars Hill: Personalities and Politics. That insufferable, God-bothering little twerp Paul Burgin piously has a go at the Blogfather today for allegedly "making personal attacks" [on the one-eyed Fuehrer of das Schottische Reich] "for electoral gain." I knew that, to expose him, all I would have to do would…
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Continue reading →: Police ‘had no order to shoot de Menezes’
Link: Police 'had no order to shoot de Menezes' – Telegraph. I have two questions today. They acted, according to the commander in charge on the day, without orders. Indeed, they were ordered to "stop". Why then have the killers of Jean-Charles de Menezes not been charged with murder? My…
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Continue reading →: De Menezes firearms chief cries in court
Link: De Menezes firearms chief cries in court – Telegraph. O.F.F.S. Are we sure he wasn’t crying with embarrassment at the way the Met continues to try to blacken the name of the innocent it killed? What on earth does the question of whether, like so many members of the…
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Continue reading →: Crazy People (1990)
Link: Crazy People (1990). Mrs Paine and I were recalling the film "Crazy People" this morning. Older readers will remember it was about a stressed ad executive (Dudley Moore) who enjoys surprising success when his fellow mental patients help him devise such honest slogans as: "Volvos; they’re boxy but they’re…
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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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