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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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Continue reading →: Tim Worstall: So Why So Little Corporation Tax?
Link: Tim Worstall: So Why So Little Corporation Tax?. Tim Worstall explains one of this week’s important stories, universally spun by the Left as meaning that companies don’t pay enough tax. It felt like the beginning of a campaign to increase corporate taxation. Before you fall for that, please read…
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Continue reading →: An official’s mind
I landed at Manchester Airport last night. For once, there were no queues at immigration, but the post and ribbon barriers that usually structure them were in place. An older businesswoman who had sat next to me on the plane from Frankfurt walked straight through, opening barriers as she went.…
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Continue reading →: Biased BBC: the smoking gun
Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: Indicating to the Right? Return to a Core Vote Strategy? Er, No…. What Iain reports here shows that the BBC, a public service broadcaster with a duty to be politically balanced, is in fact a propaganda outlet. The researcher called him to be on the show,…
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Continue reading →: We pay to have an underclass – Telegraph
Link: We pay to have an underclass – Telegraph. I wasn’t going to bother commenting on this article. Having read some of the comments on the Telegraph site and elsewhere, however, I feel the need to bear witness. Simon Heffer has told no more than the simple truth. I grew…
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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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