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Continue reading →: Second Life
It may be the future of the internet; a more natural way for people to interact online. For the time being, it’s merely a weird alternative universe with six million virtual inhabitants. At times, to be frank, it seems to be populated mainly with sex-crazed teenagers and people trying to…
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Continue reading →: A Brownian Constitution
Link: Looking for a voice: The Brown Premiership ? Guthrum comments on the fact that Gordon Brown is talking of a new written constitution for the United Kingdom. That is something we certainly need. Under New Labour’s iron party discipline, Parliament has become the obedient instrument of the Executive and…
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Continue reading →: Thanks for the optimism – and the cynicism
Link: Thanks for the optimism – and the cynicism | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph. Young Sam Leith – a future Daily Telegraph editor if ever I saw one – writes very well. His is probably a more accurate summary of the Blair years than anyone older could write.…
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Continue reading →: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Link: ‘Private’ Brown under constant scrutiny | Uk News | News | Telegraph. This article today in the Telegraph is an insight into life at the court of Labour’s Red Tsar. I would not knowingly employ such an unbalanced individual to clean my office. Thanks to the utter cowardice of…
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Continue reading →: An atheist, grateful for God
Years ago, I visited the monastery at Czestochowa in Poland – the home of the famous Black Madonna. Be-camera’d and in full tourist fig, I sauntered unthinkingly through a door and found myself among the faithful at prayer. I have never forgotten the moment. Coming from secular Britain, religious fervour…
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Continue reading →: Russian Campanology
We visited Sergeiv Posad today. It is a beautiful, peaceful place. I will put pictures in the sidebar album shortly. In the meantime, here is a short movie of the bells being rung at the monastery (click on the picture to play). This is a guy working hard for his…
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Continue reading →: The truth in a sea of internet lies
My Russian teacher was surprised to learn that I had been a teenage Communist, suspended from school for selling Marxist literature there. She was amazed that anyone lucky enough to be born "in the West" should have fallen for such stuff. Surely, she said, I had known what life was…
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Continue reading →: As A Dodo: Democracy c.508BC-2007AD
Link: As A Dodo: Democracy c.508BC-2007AD. Blogs of the week at the Last Ditch are rather like buses. Here a week can be an elastic concept. Be that as it may, "As a Dodo" is one of the best-written sites on the internet, and today’s post is an erudite and…
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Continue reading →: Hoon admits fatal errors in planning for postwar Iraq | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
Link: Hoon admits fatal errors in planning for postwar Iraq | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited. Is there some clever news management going on here? The Rt Hon. Anthony Charles Steven Lynton Blair is in the confessional before even becoming a Catholic. His old chum Lord Falconer is suggesting the Prime…
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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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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…