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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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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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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…
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