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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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Continue reading →: Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | For Blair, it’s child’s play to make us all criminals
Link: Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | For Blair, it’s child’s play to make us all criminals. Even the Grauniad (almost) gets it.
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Continue reading →: How English am I?
Link: Sinclair’s Musings: Fixing Democracy? Matthew Sinclair has made me think, with his comprehensive fisking of my piece on the failings of British democracy. He concluded that I am suffering from libertarian pessimism of the "our country is going to the dogs" variety. I hope he’s right. Follow the…
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Continue reading →: Memories of the Falklands
Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: Memories of the Falklands. Iain Dale doesn’t need any links from me but, if you haven’t already seen it, follow this one to view a "vox pop" movie for 18 Doughty Street about the Falklands War anniversary. Your blood will boil both at some of the…
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Continue reading →: “You, the Queen, should be ashamed!” | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Link: "You, the Queen, should be ashamed!" | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited. Why draw the line at this? If the Queen should be ashamed of Britain’s role in slavery, how ashamed should she be of the conduct of her own direct ancestors; the feudal masters of German serfs? Why…
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Continue reading →: A brave experiment that failed?
These days we accept democracy, unthinkingly, as a good thing. I have not heard a serious word against it since University, when some young men of my acquaintance affected to think it “a brave experiment that failed.” I begin to wonder if they were right, at least as to its…
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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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