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Continue reading →: Mark your calendar! Blogpower Awards Ceremony 2007: 1st July 2007
Where in the world, we asked ourselves, could we hold the awards ceremony for the Blogpower Awards 2007? Our nominees are from all over the world. There is simply no convenient place for them all to meet. So I suggested to James Higham, founder of both the awards and of…
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Continue reading →: Watch this space…
…for an announcement of the venue for the awards ceremony for the Blogpower Awards 2007. Everyone will be welcome and the drinks will be free, so get ready to mark your calendars.
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Continue reading →: Blair launches attack on UK media ‘beast’
Link: Blair launches attack on UK media ‘beast’ | Uk News | News | Telegraph. How amusing. Blair is so detached from reality that he thinks the soft ride he gets from the mainstream media is too aggressive, and is disappointed with the blogosphere. Mr Blair said that the evolution…
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Continue reading →: A picture worth a thousand words
Sometimes I wish I could draw. h/t Picking Losers, Bloggerheads
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Awards 2007
Link: nourishing obscurity: [blogpower] voting has started has started. I thoroughly support Blogpower’s initiative to organise transparent, open-nomination blog awards. Congratulations to James Higham for having the idea and thanks for all the work he has put into it. There are twenty categories to vote for. 1 Best Britblog or…
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Continue reading →: Anatole Kaletsky on world economic prospects
I have just been listening to Anatole Kaletsky, the economist, journalist and "Editor at large" of The Times, talking to a conference about the global economy and its future. He attributes the economic stability of the past 15 years to four global economic trends: 1. Globalisation2. Financial revolution3. …
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Continue reading →: Tim Worstall: Brown and Civil Liberties
Link: Tim Worstall: Brown and Civil Liberties. Tim hits the target with total precision here. Why can’t the media make comments like this? Lord Carlile, who was appointed by the Government to monitor its anti-terrorism legislation, said: "There is no stronger evidence needed for more demanding controls than disappearances." Remember…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Awards 2007
Nominations are open for these new, highly-transparent, awards. They are another James Higham initiative for the betterment of the blogosphere brought to you by the Blogpower bloggers’ cooperative. Nominations and voting are both open to all in the following categories :- Best Britblog or Column Best North American Blog or…
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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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