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Continue reading →: Sicily Scene: a Blogpower Review
Link: Sicily Scene. That we Blogpowerers have little in common is evident from the most cursory scan of our blogs. However, by undertaking regularly to read and comment on each others output, we have made a neighbourhood in the vastness of the blogosphere. Our self-selecting community makes it all more…
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Continue reading →: Commemoration day to recall slave trade and make UK face up to past
Link: Commemoration day to recall slave trade and make UK face up to past | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited. The nation of Shakespeare, Nelson and Wilberforce has no reason to apologise for its ancestors. Not all they did was good by modern standards, but every man is entitled to…
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Continue reading →: Catherine Tate hails Blair’s comic skills
Link: Catherine Tate hails Blair’s comic skills | Breaking News | News | Telegraph. So, according to Catherine Tate, Tony Blair is "one of the finest comic actors of his generation" That certainly explains quite a lot, but doesn’t it also mean we have been taking him a bit too…
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Continue reading →: Europe must be united in criminalizing racism, EU lawmakers say
Link: Europe must be united in criminalizing racism, EU lawmakers say – Europe. Assuming that there has been "…a strong increase in racist acts…" (and leaving aside for a moment who is responsible for most of them) what – properly viewed – is the evil to be addressed by law?…
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Continue reading →: ‘Stalinist’ Brown comment ‘not appropriate’
Link: ‘Stalinist’ Brown comment ‘not appropriate’ | Uk News | News | Telegraph. How I hate the modern weasel usage of the word "appropriate." My New Year resolution was to be "inappropriate" all year – and I am doing well. So, who cares whether or not it was "not appropriate,"…
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Continue reading →: Work for the State for 30 years, and it will trash you on the word of a lying chav
Link: The nightmare of the respected teacher falsely accused of assaulting a teenage boy | the Daily Mail. to New Labour’s new Britain.
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Continue reading →: An honest fool speaks
Link: BRIGHTON-REGENCY-LABOUR-SUPPORTER: I wonder how many people at NO2ID etc have mobile phones?. They say if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Here speaks such a man: "I think we should track everyone and put their location on the internet for all to see (this way…
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Continue reading →: The Party’s Over…
We celebrated at Moscow’s superb "Turandot" restaurant (rumoured to have cost $50 million to fit out). Judging by the gilding, that may be an underestimate. The food was good too and the music (see picture of bewigged "band") was excellent. Thanks to the readers who were kind enough to send…
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Continue reading →: Kenyans are not black. Discuss.
For the benefit of the thousands working drawing salaries in Britain’s race relations industry, here are two free people – black and white – debating racial issues. Columnist Debra Dickerson defends the ludicrous contention that Barack Obama is not "black," taking in good part the deserved oral fisking she gets…
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Continue reading →: Labour’s lobby scandal-News-Politics-TimesOnline
Link: Labour’s lobby scandal-News-Politics-TimesOnline. It’s good to see the Sunday Times returning to an honourable tradition of investigative journalism, after 10 years of – like the rest of the Murdoch empire – serving as New Labour lickspittles. I am not surprised by this story. I continue to be surprised however…
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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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