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Continue reading →: Very droll, but what about next year?
Blair’s legacy to Brown? He must appear on Comic Relief next year as Rab C. Nesbitt, or be thought dour. h/t Dizzy Thinks
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Continue reading →: Social Justice -v- Justice
Link: University education could cost an arm and leg | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph. A young man grew up in a Labour constituency in the North. None of his ancestors went to university. One grandmother, admittedly, went to teacher training college and taught at a primary school until…
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Continue reading →: Heading home
I am writing this in Zurich airport, while I wait for my connection back home to Moscow. Here’s the view from my seat on the flight here. Normal service will be resumed when I have had a proper night’s sleep.
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Continue reading →: Manchester taxpayer? Here’s where your money goes.
In the world of public sector "investment promotion", some of the money that is taken from businesses in taxes is spent on persuading them to invest again (so as to be taxed again). I hasten to stress that Manchester is by no means the worst culprit. You should see the…
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Continue reading →: Tom Elsewhere (at Conservatives Abroad)
Link: The View From…Moscow at Conservatives Abroad : The View From…. While I continue my hard slog on the Cote d’Azur, there is an article of mine up on the Conservatives Abroad blog. All credit to the Conservative Party that it is willing to give a platform to a dissenting…
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Continue reading →: Light blogging alert
I shall be attending a real estate industry fair in Cannes this week. My social life will be more than usually hectic and blogging will be correspondingly light.
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Continue reading →: Ask David
I have posted a question to the WebCameron site about the reported contents of the Conservative Party’s "Greener Skies" paper. I would really appreciate it if you could please head over there and vote for Mr Cameron to answer the question. Thanks.
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Continue reading →: Cameron considers tax hikes on air travel
Link: Cameron considers tax hikes on air travel | Uk News | News | Telegraph. I may be about to set a record for the shortest membership of a political party. This week, David Cameron having recently announced a policy I agreed with, I sent off my form to join…
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Continue reading →: Blair aides ‘plotted’ to foil police
Link: Blair aides ‘plotted’ to foil police-News-Politics-TimesOnline. I am beginning to feel sorry for these people. Who in their right minds would write down a conversation like this? ‘Lord Levy, Tony Blair’s chief fundraiser, allegedly asked the prime minister’s most senior advisers to lie to police by telling detectives he…
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Continue reading →: Africans still waiting for ‘chief’ Geldof’s help
Link: Africans still waiting for ‘chief’ Geldof’s help | International News | News | Telegraph. Bob says there’s a misunderstanding, and he’s right. The African villagers thought he was a philanthropist. He’s actually just a has-been pop star. It’s one thing swearily to demand that Governments expropriate money from their…
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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.
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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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