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Continue reading →: Millionaire cheat guilty of assaulting boy | Breaking News | News | Telegraph
Link: Millionaire cheat guilty of assaulting boy | Breaking News | News | Telegraph. A 13-year old boy spits in your face. You grab his lapels and tell him that if he does it again he will regret it. You are charged and convicted of assault. Now why do we…
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Continue reading →: Whither England?
Link: freedomdogs.com – We Shall Fight Them At The Water Cooler. Ouch.
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Continue reading →: Show of Hands at the Royal Albert Hall
Link: Royal Albert Hall | Royal Albert Hall. What a room! It was my first time there and I have to say that the Albert Hall is worth a visit in its own right. Show of Hands put on a good evening’s entertainment too, together with an assortment of guests…
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Continue reading →: Family Party
As I am in England for Easter, we were able – belatedly – to celebrate my 50th birthday together as a family. The picture is of my sister-in-law’s brilliant idea for a birthday cake. It tasted good too and seemed actually to be bigger on the inside than it looked…
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Continue reading →: The end of the road for the Royal Navy
For 200 years, if in doubt as to how to behave, all a member of the Royal Navy had to do was ask himself this question; What would Nelson have done? I think we can safely say that most of the people in this picture are not asking themselves that…
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Continue reading →: Thanks, Uncle Sam
Link: Charles Krauthammer on Iran on National Review Online. I am sick of the cheap anti-Americanism of the British media. The Guardian, in particular, would back Satan himself in any conflict with the United States. The supposedly conservative rags are little better. Even the otherwise sound Jeremy Clarkson is unhinged…
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Continue reading →: Educational Conscription
Link: Educational Conscription: Pity the poor teachers. If like me, you feel that someone old enough to marry, have a family or serve his country in the armed forces is old enough to make his own choices about education or training, please sign this petition. Anticipating the usual cynical comments,…
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Continue reading →: Apology for ‘idiots’ election ban
Link: ‘Apology for\’idiots\’election ban’. If indeed idiots were ever banned from public office in Britain, that ban seems to have been remarkably ineffective.
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Continue reading →: Singapore, India and the good life
I have learned a lot in the last couple of days. For instance, that India is short of about 20 million homes at present. Her cities are growing at the rate of 5% per annum (on average). The investment required to build the homes and supporting infrastructure the country needs…
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Continue reading →: Dizzy Thinks: Interesting minutiae if you own a home
Link: Dizzy Thinks: Interesting minutiae if you own a home. Dizzy says: It all comes down to personal responsibility and risk for me. To me, it comes down to property rights. Margaret Thatcher let thousands of former council house tenants feel like free men and women because they could choose…
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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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