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Continue reading →: Blogpower Roundup – Nominations please.
The second edition of the Blogpower roundup is in the works over at Imagined Community. I can only echo our founding father’s appeal to submit your nominations to: – blogpowerroundup AT googlemail DOT com
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Continue reading →: The costs of blogging?
Last week I was approached with a proposition I could not accept because of this blog. I realised I was unconcerned about declining. Although I despair at times, this little blog is more important to me than fortune or glory. Its readership is small and it has precious little impact,…
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Continue reading →: So far, so good
I rather frightened myself in the discussions on my last post with the thought that my blog might, thanks to Google, become associated with its odious subject matter. According to my stats package however, it seems (at least not yet) to be the case. Here are the searches that brought…
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Continue reading →: Toleration -vs- Approval
I have been pondering a comment I received on my post of 18 days ago. Quoting my passing remark that; I even feel sorry for paedophiles, who have no more control over their sexual preferences than other sexual minorities, but who cannot be tolerated because their desires – by definition-…
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Continue reading →: Fair dealing?
Labour’s policies make no sense when approached from the point of view of reason, fairness and justice. That is because they were not conceived from that point of view. The logic behind Labour’s policies is simple and corrupt. Their objective is to steal public funds and use them to bribe…
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Continue reading →: Maxwellian abuse of the defamation laws?
Lawyers acting for Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek businessman of allegedly doubtful repute, have persuaded Tim Ireland’s and Craig Murray’s webhosting service to take down their sites. This, over allegations about Mr. Usmanov which are allegedly defamatory. Idiotically, the webhost has managed, at the same time, to take down other sites…
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Continue reading →: Study shows 250,000 problem gamblers in UK | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Link: Study shows 250,000 problem gamblers in UK | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited. Perhaps so, but these are the two worst. At least the other 249,998 do it with their own money.
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Continue reading →: Which book are you?
If I can’t be a great book, I am glad at least to be a funny one. I admired Douglas Adams, who was a Mac user with a child’s curiosity, a very adult sensibility and a relentless inability to take pretension seriously. Would that I could muster more than two…
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Continue reading →: Burning our money: Open Ended Taxpayer Bank Guarantee
Link: Burning our money: Open Ended Taxpayer Bank Guarantee. The inimitable and invaluable Wat Tyler puts his finger on the issues arising from the Government’s unprecedented support for Northern Rock. They may have forgotten it. The Press may have forgotten it. The legions of Labour-voting clients of the Welfare State…
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Continue reading →: Northern Rock: Gordon Brown’s big gamble – Telegraph
Link: Northern Rock: Gordon Brown’s big gamble – Telegraph. "Brown’s big gamble?" Or ours? Once again, even the Telegraph fails to recognise that our "prudent" Prime Minister is a mere trustee of the nation’s wealth. It is not his to gamble. I love the way the Northern Rock affair is…
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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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