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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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Continue reading →: Is this how the Crown Prosecution Service would treat you?
One of the best things about Britain used to be that the police had no special powers or privileges. Sir Robert Peel’s original conception was of people employed to do professionally what any public-spirited citizen might do. The genius of this vision was that citizens need not fear their police.…
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Continue reading →: Labour turmoil over new police powers
Link: Labour turmoil over new police powers | Uk News | News | Telegraph. All my life, I have been proud to be a "law-abiding citizen." A lawyer by training and instinct, I am more sceptical than most about the benefits of law in general. In the criminal realm, I…
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Continue reading →: Australian pub bars heterosexuals
Link: ‘Australian pub bars heterosexuals’. Here, in the final sentence of the linked artice, is the perfect example of a non sequitur: Australia’s equal opportunity laws prevent discrimination based on race, religion or sexuality. Leave aside the idiotic choice of the verb "to prevent," which would be used here by…
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Continue reading →: Blair, civil liberties and the rights of suspects « Not Saussure
Link: Blair, civil liberties and the rights of suspects « Not Saussure. I have given blogging a rest for the weekend and have tried to think of better things in life than the totalitarian tendencies of New Labour. Fortunately, Not Saussure has been on guard and has said (in the…
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Continue reading →: Why one and not another?
Link: Missing girl’s body ‘put into kebab’ | Britain Today | Global | Telegraph. The press coverage of the abduction of Madeleine McCann makes me uneasy. Since Blair first trembled his lip at the loss of Diana, Princess of Wales, we seem prone as a nation to impotent outbursts of…
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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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
Maybe they should be legally required to only provide halal to muslims or those that request it. If you are…
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