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Continue reading →: Railing at Grayling
Link: A.C. Grayling – Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, Univ. of London. Yesterday, I attended a lecture by Professor A.C. Grayling. His subject was Responding to Socrates: Philosophy and the Making of the Best Life. Grayling is a good, if rather affected, speaker. He’s big on affectation actually, with…
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Continue reading →: Disco Sarko
Link: Disco Sarko. Not only are French politicians better-looking than ours, French satirists are more creative. Enjoy! H/T Westminster Wisdom
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Continue reading →: Heterophobia?
Link: Gay tourist hotels fear equality law – Law – Times Online. Why can’t people run their businesses as they please? The market punishes those who discriminate unreasonably far more effectively than any “equality” legislation. The proprietor of the gays-only hotel “Guyz” expresses this libertarian view perfectly when he says:…
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Continue reading →: In England, this weekend
Today I am visiting my daughter at her school in Gloucestershire (the picture is the view from my hotel window) and attending a lecture by philosopher/arch-Guardianista, Professor AC Grayling. I am still digesting what he had to say. I am sure I will have something to say about it in…
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Continue reading →: What’s in a name?
I am intrigued by the coverage of the Blair Affair in the British media. Our journalists are eager to accuse foreign politicians of corruption, but so far I have only seen the word used once, in the Financial Times [subscription required], of the “cash for peerages” story. Of course Blair…
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Continue reading →: Panorama | Distract criminals, says minister
Link: BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | Distract criminals, says minister. Who took our streets from us? The police force was originally set up with no more rights or duties than the rest of us. Police officers were merely there to do, professionally, what any of us might do…
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Continue reading →: Personality analysis from just four questions? Can it really be that simple?
Your Personality Cluster is Introverted Intuition You are: Multilayered and complex Inspired and driven to achieve your goals A visionary with a complete life plan Intuitive enough to understand difficult problems, ideas, and people What’s Your Personality Cluster? H/T Shades of Grey(s)
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Continue reading →: Which religion?
Given my view as stated in my previous post on religious belief (my second most popular item), i.e. that my values are derived from my Christian heritage, the results of this “pop quiz” are surprising. I can understand that it doesn’t score me as an atheist. For it to do…
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Continue reading →: Doonesbury
Link: Doonesbury@Slate – Daily Dose. Quotidian attacks on President George W. Bush are usually humourless and easily ignored. Cheap anti-Americanism underlies most of them, at least outside the United States. Mr Bush’s administration is just too easy a target, because of the “shock and awe” of its shocking, awesome incompetence.…
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Continue reading →: BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1976: Explosions rock London’s West End
Link: BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1976: Explosions rock London’s West End. Hardly breaking news, but sobering reading for those who tell us that everything has changed and that 19th Century notions of civil rights no longer make sense in 21st Century conditions. Terrorism is not new. There…
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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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