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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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Continue reading →: The speech every Tory should be making
Link: Tories’ economic legacy has been squandered – Telegraph. The chickens are coming home to roost. It is time for the Tories to mulch Zac Goldsmith and his vote-rotting greenery and resume their natural role as the party of economic sense. In the linked article, Ruth Lea sets out the…
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Continue reading →: The ThunderDragon: Just Bloggin’ Bout My Generation
Link: The ThunderDragon: Just Bloggin’ Bout My Generation. I am trying not to take this post by young Mr ThunderDragon personally. Particularly as "grok" is from a sci-fi book published when I was a toddler. According to SearchSMB.com; – To grok (pronounced GRAHK) something is to understand something so well…
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Continue reading →: ‘Fear of prejudice’ let gay carers abuse boys
Link: ‘Fear of prejudice’ let gay carers abuse boys – Telegraph. Those of us who complain about it have misunderstood the significance of political correctness. It is not a fad, but a fundamental change in our society. Social conventions have always been much more important than laws in controlling behaviours.…
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Continue reading →: Gordon Brown ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher
Link: Gordon Brown ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher – Telegraph. Hasn’t this triangulation crap gone far enough now? I never heard a worse thing about the Blessed Margaret than this. Margaret was a great leader who went into public life out of a sense of civic duty. She was motivated by firm…
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Continue reading →: Apropos of nothing in particular
A new friend in Second Life introduced me to this video today. Country music can be embarrassing, I know. My daughters mock me relentlessly for my "redneck" tastes. I can handle it. Sometimes a good country song is just so real, that you have to love it (however much you…
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Continue reading →: The Case Against Further Green Taxes
Link: The TaxPayers’ Alliance – Economics 101: The Case Against Further Green Taxes – Report and Poll. The TaxPayers’ Alliance is potentially the most important pressure group in British politics. We are on the cusp of losing our democracy. The State’s employees, "benefits" recipients and employees of private sector companies…
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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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