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Continue reading →: Adam Smith Institute
Link: Adam Smith Institute Blog. The news of our Awards Ceremony has featured in the Adam Smith Institute’s "blog review"
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Continue reading →: BBC report finds bias within corporation
Link: BBC report finds bias within corporation | Uk News | News | Telegraph. So? Please tell us something we didn’t know. Did anyone think that a broadcaster capable of lauding Cuba’s healthcare was unbiased? That a broadcaster which consistently pits the least videogenic Tories against the best from other…
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Continue reading →: Introducing more of our Bloggers…
Today was the busiest day of all at Last Ditch House in Second Life. Some old friends were back, such as Ruthie, Delicolor (Ian Grey) and Devil’s Kitchen. But there were lots of new ones too. Just look at this assembly of guests by my pool! I am beginning to…
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Continue reading →: Imagined Community: Introducing Imah Gynoid
Link: Imagined Community: Introducing Imah Gynoid. Imagined Community is in Second Life and practising for the awards ceremony. Follow the link for his report.
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Continue reading →: The Devil’s Kitchen: A Second Life
Link: The Devil’s Kitchen: A Second Life. DK over at Devil’s Kitchen was kind enough to give the Blogpower Awards ceremony a write-up. He makes a very fair point about virtual alcohol. I find it’s best to have a beer myself in RL (Real Life, in SL-speak) while signalling what…
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Continue reading →: A visit from the Devil we know
Today we were honoured with a visit in Second Life from DK of the Devil’s Kitchen. Despite claiming to have teleported directly to us on first arrival, he had – as you can see – done a pretty good job of setting up a suitably demonic avatar. What a stark…
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Continue reading →: Out of this world
NotSaussure is getting the hang of Second Life. It doesn’t do there to hang on too tightly to reality; or even to verisimilitude. Still, the angels’ wings he found for Ruthie do look rather fetching. And (in Second Life) they work. The man himself is working steadily on his appearance,…
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Continue reading →: More visitors from Blogpower in Second Life
Another late night meeting and greeting friends from Blogpower at my virtual home. Ruthie Zaftig was there, practising transcendental meditation, as were Theo Spark, NotSaussure and Delicolor. After a long chat in my office (see pictures of us around my meeting table), Jeremy Jacobs finally arrived – providing a real…
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Continue reading →: Awards Ceremony Preparations continue…
The Blogpower Awards Ceremony is attracting some interest. I had three visitors at Last Ditch House in Second Life last night; Delicolor (Ian Grey), NotSaussure and Chip Dale. Alarmingly, Mr. Dale was clad only in a thong. (Now there’s a sentence no respectable political blogger ever expected to write). I…
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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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