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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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Continue reading →: Brown likened to elusive cat | Uk News | News | Telegraph
Link: Brown likened to elusive cat | Uk News | News | Telegraph. This story neatly illustrates the difference between the mainstream media and the blogosphere. It has been as plain as the nose on Brown’s face for many years that he had ripped off the nation’s pension funds with…
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Continue reading →: Blogger or Bloggee?
Link: nourishing obscurity: [summary] ten points to put you off your breakfast. There is much that is sad about James Higham’s linked post, but perhaps nothing sadder than this: "You can see from the blogosphere that everyone with a computer has his own ‘take’ on events and isn’t really interested…
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Continue reading →: Liveblogging about India from Singapore
There are huge movements of humanity underway at present. 200 million Chinese have moved from the countryside to the city in the last 10 years – the greatest migration in human history. In the next 10 years, if the speakers at the conference I am attending are to be believed,…
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Continue reading →: University policies that filter out middle classes
Link: University policies that filter out middle classes | Uk News | News | Telegraph. Little did we think when we decided to send our children to a private school that we would be subjecting them to Cultural Revolution-type selection under which they would be punished for being "cosmopolitan elements"…
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Continue reading →: Hostage Sailors: Britain’s impotence
Link: HOSTAGE SAILORS — BRITAIN’S IMPOTENCE By ARTHUR HERMAN – Opedcolumnists – New York Post Online Edition. Thanks to Iain Dale for pointing me to this article, of which he rather seems to have missed the point. According to the New York Post; The latest report is that the Britons…
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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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