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Continue reading →: Steven Levitt: Economics for those who are not interested in Economics
I know this is quite old but I was telling my daughters about it over dinner last night and thought it could use another airing. http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf
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Continue reading →: Blogging on the beach
How pathetic is it that I regard wi-fi on the beach as the mark of a civilised hotel? How sad is it that my family agree, as it means I am keener to join them there?
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Continue reading →: Brown spends £39bn in first seven weeks in No 10
Link: Brown spends £39bn in first seven weeks in No 10 | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. So he is going for an early election then? After all, why worry about the lack of party funds, when you can spend the taxpayers’ money on campaigning?
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Continue reading →: The ThunderDragon: Boycott ID Card Contract Winners
Link: The ThunderDragon: Boycott ID Card Contract Winners. I endorse the Thunder Dragon’s endorsement. Why would you want to give further business to companies which plan to assist in the Government’s destruction of Britain’s liberties? Sign up now and make them think twice.
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Continue reading →: Ban Koran like Mein Kampf, says Dutch MP
Link: Ban Koran like Mein Kampf, says Dutch MP – Telegraph. This article illustrates several points about contemporary European politics. First, the irony that a "Freedom Party" should call for the banning of a book. In the second half of the 20th Century, "Progressive" Socialism was so much the accepted…
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Continue reading →: PM who does well in a crisis?
Link: PM who does well in a crisis – Telegraph. How do the Government spin-doctors do it? Is it corruption? Hypnotism? Are they procuring sexual favours for journalists? Even the Torygraph presents Brown in a good light for two-thirds of this article before making what ought to be a killer…
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Continue reading →: Burning our money: Why Nimbyism Is Always Right
Link: Burning our money: Why Nimbyism Is Always Right. The ever-reliable Wat Tyler tells it like it is, as always. While the State Propaganda Arm presents Gordon Brown as the Saviour of the Nation in the face of potential disaster, Wat raises a wry smile with the comment that; That’s…
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Continue reading →: I would like to thank my wife, my mother, my daughters…
I am very pleased to have been voted the "Best Expat Political Blog" in the Witanagemot Club’s blog awards. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. It is a little encouragement in time of dire need.
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Continue reading →: “Disillusioned” was not an option.
You Are a Pundit Blogger! Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few What Kind of Blogger Are You? PS: Apparently, if I were a South Park character, I would look like this h/t Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe
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Continue reading →: The rights of cohabiting couples
Link: A Conservative’s blog: The rights of cohabiting couples. Benedict makes good points. Couples wanting to achieve the results proposed by the Law Commission could easily do so contractually – most simply by entering into the "standard form contract" known as marriage. I sense my libertarian arguments usually fall on…
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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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