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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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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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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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