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Continue reading →: Palace told Blair aide: beware of honours probe chief | Politics | The Observer
Link: Palace told Blair aide: beware of honours probe chief | Politics | The Observer How shocking. A Scotland Yard detective who is "…a relentless investigator…" Precisely how half-hearted should an investigator be so as not to be "a menace?"
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Continue reading →: Halting Saudi probe ‘damaged UK’
Link: ‘Halting Saudi probe\’damaged UK\” No shit, Sherlocks. Gentle readers, you saw it here first.
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Continue reading →: Raedwald on Wine
Link: Raedwald. The prigs at Alcohol Concern believe (like so many other Statist swine) that they know better than us how to bring up our children. Both my daughters were introduced gradually to alcohol from a young age in the French manner, with a view to their learning to appreciate…
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Continue reading →: The West needs a defence system that works
Link: The West needs a defence system that works | International News | News | Telegraph. Condoleeza Rice’s article is itself of no particular interest. It’s addressed more to a certain foreign government than to the readers of the Daily Telegraph. It is no doubt a minor part of a…
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Continue reading →: The best way to give the poor a real voice is [NOT] through a world parliament
Link: The best way to give the poor a real voice is through a world parliament | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited. I don’t need to explain why this idea is ridiculous as Deogolwulf has done so, better than I could, here. Now that George Monbiot’s grip on reality…
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Continue reading →: Centenarian wins £25,000 on his birthday
Link: Centenarian wins £25,000 on his birthday | Uk News | News | Telegraph. Perhaps, barring accidents, longevity is a matter of having something to live for? I salute Mr Holden’s spirit and his sense of humour and hope he lives long to enjoy his winnings. If he gives them…
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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday, Will.
Link: Telegraph Blogs: Politics: Daniel Hannan: April 2007: A day for remembering the Bard. Daniel is right. If our nation falls, we can still be proud she gave the world Shakespeare. Chins up, countrymen! Have a great St. George’s day.
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Continue reading →: Time for the Kingdom to be Untied
Link: newsBlog | Campaign for an English Parliament. The growing English desire for a Parliament is entirely a reaction to the West Lothian Question. Englishmen have never before shown any desire for more layers of government. Were it not for devolution, we would be quite content to be governed from…
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Continue reading →: Who leaked Labour’s programme for Scotland?
Link: BBC News from Scotland. http://metaatem.net/spell.php?picsize=s&string=?
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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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