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Continue reading →: ‘John Prescott to stand down as MP’
Link: ‘John Prescott to stand down as MP’. Oh, the lecherous, freeloading old bruiser was an MP was he? I didn’t know that. I thought he was some kind of National Fool, employed at the taxpayers’ expense (of course) to wear cap and bells to cheer up an oppressed people.…
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Continue reading →: Outrage at 500,000 DNA database mistakes – Telegraph
Link: Outrage at 500,000 DNA database mistakes – Telegraph. "Outrage" is one of those headline words rarely used in ordinary life. I can’t say I am "outraged" by yet another example of the incompetence of the British State. To be outraged, or even disappointed, I would have to have some…
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Continue reading →: McCanns call for media obsession to end – Telegraph
Link: McCanns call for media obsession to end – Telegraph. Gerry McCann says it all. ‘In the last six weeks there really has been nothing to report’ He and his wife did everything they could to engineer the media frenzy of which he now complains. They did so contrary to…
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Continue reading →: ‘Rhys police hunt teenage killer’
Link: ‘Rhys police hunt teenage killer’. My more sentimental readers will expect me to begin with a ritual expression of sympathy with the family of this murdered boy. However, I don’t know them and I didn’t know him so it would be entirely meaningless. Millions die ungrieved by anyone but…
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Continue reading →: ‘Record number of people leave UK’
Link: ‘Record number of people leave UK’. If staff turnover increases in a private business it will conduct "exit interviews" with leavers to find out why. Losing experienced staff who understand the business is a bad idea, as is wasting cost on recruitment and training. Maybe the UK should start…
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Continue reading →: Northern Blog Meet
Today I rested after my journey from the South of France, before returning to Moscow tomorrow. I had the pleasure of meeting my friend from Second Life and fellow blogger Bag for a lunchtime drink in my home town in Northern England. It was rather surreal that we were able…
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Continue reading →: I am Claudia. Hear me roar
Claudia and I will set out early this morning to drive the 1658 km home from the South of France. Much refreshed after my holiday, I am looking forward to this trip. Blogging will be light as our overnight stop is not endowed with broadband. Normal service will be resumed,…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Round-up #1
Link: An Insomniac: Blogpower Round-up #1. A new dimension to the Blogpower experience? Thanks to Matt M., for a job well done. Follow the link and check it out.
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Continue reading →: Pressure grows for ban on drinking in street
Link: Pressure grows for ban on drinking in street – Telegraph. We really have to worry when our policemen and MP’s favour the notion of collective punishment. The majority of drinkers, young and old, behave responsibly. Why should they pay more for their alchohol, because a minority misbehave? Why should…
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Continue reading →: Councillor Terry Kelly: GUTEN MORGEN & DIYEN DOBRI – COMRADES
Link: Councillor Terry Kelly: GUTEN MORGEN & DIYEN DOBRI – COMRADES. Have a read of the comments to this post. One has to ask why the Labour Party, if it is the modern Social-Democratic organisation it claims to be, does not sling this man out on his Stalinist ear?
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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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