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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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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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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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