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Continue reading →: Armed bloggers, Guardianistas and stat porn
By the standards of the big boys this is nothing but more than 1,000 hits in a day (790 unique visitors) is a first for me. If you want to boost your traffic, it seems you should write in support of the right to bear arms. My quite mild piece…
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Continue reading →: Operation Ore flawed by fraud
Link: Operation Ore flawed by fraud | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology. All credit to Duncan Campbell of PCPro magazine and my least favourite newspaper, the Guardian, for this story. Why has Guardian Unlimited only run it as a small piece on the technology pages though? For that matter, why…
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Continue reading →: What can we hope to achieve? (Part III of “What’s the point of blogging?”)
It is impolite to talk about politics in Britain. Socially-approved opportunities to do so are few. Usually they involve small-scale discussions with like-minded people, which tend to reinforce rather than change opinions. Even our one-way "discussion" with our daily newspaper is usually within our political comfort zone. Even if you…
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Continue reading →: Don’t be smug about V-Tech killings
Link: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US university killer was S Korean. Britain’s anti-American media were all over the sad story of the V-Tech killings. They tore gleefully into America’s "gun culture" and its people in general. Let’s get this straight. This horror didn’t happen because the killer…
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Continue reading →: Why I blog (part II of “What is the point of blogging?”)
Over two years, I have devoted many hours to expressing opinions here. Just over 70 people subscribe to my RSS feed and 30-50 “regulars” actually show up at the site each day. If the even smaller group who make comments are representative, they all have quite similar opinions to mine.…
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Continue reading →: Browne apologises for allowing sailors to sell stories | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Link: Browne apologises for allowing sailors to sell stories | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. This government is as arrogant as it is incompetent. Challenged by his Shadow to apologise, Defence Secretary Des Browne said: "If he wants me to say sorry then I am more than happy to…
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Continue reading →: British Forces at War: As Witnessed by an American
Link: Michael Yon : Online Magazine » Blog Archive » British Forces at War: As Witnessed by an American. Thanks for the kind words in response to my "What is the point of blogging?" post. John East put me firmly in my place and I accept his deserved rebuke in…
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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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