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Continue reading →: PCSOs who ‘stood by’ as boy drowned named
Link: PCSOs who ‘stood by’ as boy drowned named – Telegraph. Let these names forever be associated with the word "cowardice." They "were only following orders." Let’s hope they are never given worse. Witness statements submitted to the inquest into the death of the schoolboy Jordon Lyon describe how Andrew…
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Continue reading →: Blame faulty tax credits for bad behaviour
Link: Blame faulty tax credits for bad behaviour – Telegraph. Apart from the ritual denunciation of Thatcher (there wasn’t enough money in the world, Mr Field, to subsidise the blighted British industry of my youth) this article makes so much more sense than anything coming from the Tories. People living…
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Continue reading →: Met failures led to De Menezes death, jury told – Telegraph
Link: Met failures led to De Menezes death, jury told – Telegraph. Had such “failures” occurred under the management of a private company, there would be ludicrous cries of “corporate manslaughter” (as if a company could kill). Yet as they were the failures of an arm of Britons’ beloved Mother…
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Continue reading →: Burglary isn’t worth investigating
Link: Police to probe Ian Huntley suicide attempt Suicide isn’t a crime. Nor is attempted suicide. Given his horrendous crime, Huntley’s desire to die is perfectly rational and it is his life to end if he wishes. So what crime is the "Ministry of Justice" (how I hate that un-English…
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Continue reading →: The Top 500 Political Blogs in the UK
Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: The Top 500 Political Blogs in the UK – Voted for By You. My thanks those who voted for the Last Ditch. I am surprised to be rated higher than many blogs I consider to be better; e.g. the relentlessly sound Bel is Thinking, the wittily…
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Continue reading →: Usmanov latest
Link: Tim Worstall » Blog Archive » Alisher Usmanov Speech. Tom Wise MEP repeated, under the protections of the parliamentary privilege of the European Parliament, some of the key allegations against Alisher Usmanov which led to Tim Worstall’s Ireland’s and Craig Murray’s blogs being taken down recently at the request…
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Continue reading →: Unsubscribe from Human Rights abuse in the “war on terror”
Link: unsubscribe-me.org | Get Started. I know that some libertarians and (even more) some traditional right-wingers are irritated by the way in which Amnesty International has contaminated its human rights campaigning by "bleeding" into other, "right on" issues. Liberty comes under similar (and partly justified) criticism. Amnesty’s latest campaign, however,…
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Continue reading →: A National Mottto
Link: BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor. The linked page cheered us up over our breakfast toast. Readers of the BBC Website posted a thousand suggestions in response to El Gordo’s suggestion that the United Kingdom needs a national motto like France’s Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite or the United States’ In God…
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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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