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Continue reading →: Questions of conscience
The left of the Labour Party is right, to precisely this extent. The Government would be wrong to make an exception to the Sexual Orientation Regulations, which come into force in April, for the Catholic (or any other) Church. If a law is necessary and correct, it must apply to…
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Continue reading →: Blog Trends
This is an interesting feature over at IceRocket.com. You can type in 1-3 search terms and get a graph plotting how often they have been mentioned in blogs in the last 1, 2 or 3 months. There has to be some more creative use of it than in the example…
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Continue reading →: More Cat than Dog?
My only excuse for taking this test is that I am ill, in bed and bored. What will your excuse be? You Are: 40% Dog, 60% Cat You and cats have a lot in common. You’re both smart and in charge – with a good amount of attitude. However, you…
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Continue reading →: As A Dodo: The Home Office 1782-2007
Link: As A Dodo: The Home Office 1782-2007. I have no plans to write a full Blogpower Review (I have just enough strength left to fulfil my commitment to do ten) but I just want to say that one of my favourite blogs at the moment, in or out of…
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Continue reading →: The truth about British education
As I predicted, New Labour is using the Celebrity Big Brother hoo-ha as an excuse for the compulsory re-education of the masses. Compare and contrast with this story about maths and English standards in our schools. We should have no doubt about New Labour’s “educational” priorities. Just as it sees…
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Continue reading →: The ThunderDragon: Blogpower Testimonial 9
ThunderDragon may, let’s face it, be taking the youth thing a bit far. Why would a 21 year old want to be a political blogger when, as the poet would have it, the force that through the green fuse drives the flower still drives his green age? If you are…
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Continue reading →: Guy Fawkes’ blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: How They Change Their Tune
Link: Guy Fawkes’ blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: How They Change Their Tune. I really have to conclude that enough’s enough when we have a Government who will back police to the hilt after they pump seven bullets into an innocent man on the Tube, yet accuse them…
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Continue reading →: Am I alone?
…in thinking that, once “hate speech” of any kind becomes a crime, we are doomed to tyranny by analogy? The advice given by a judge in a recent case exposes the idiocy of our present situation; Next time, call him a fat bastard Unless a Pakistani is inferior to an…
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Continue reading →: The Waendel Journal – Blogpower Testimonial 8
Link: The Waendel Journal. Tony Sharp seems to be a modern English yeoman. Firstly, he’s a conventional "unspun" Tory; an "active member" of his local constituency association in the shires. Secondly, he’s a man rooted in his own community. I used to live in Northamptonshire. Wellingborough is by all accounts…
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Continue reading →: Burning our money: Inflation Shocker
Link: Burning our money: Inflation Shocker. Wat Tyler makes the point in my last post more elegantly: … we can see precisely why politicos could never be trusted with the management of monetary policy. I wonder why we still think they can be trusted with the management of all that…
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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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