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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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Continue reading →: Catalogue of abuse in NHS care homes | Social care | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
Link: Catalogue of abuse in NHS care homes | Social care | SocietyGuardian.co.uk. No-one will look after you if you are too old or disabled to do it yourself, except members of your family or those paid for by (and accountable to) them. Perhaps this should not be true, but…
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Continue reading →: Addicted to the ‘net? No.
59% Average@Internet-User.com (41% – 60%)You seem to have a healthy balance in your life when it comes to the internet and life away from the computer. You know enough to do what you want online without looking like an idiot (most of the time). You even have your own Yahoo club or…
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Continue reading →: MI6 and Blair at odds over Saudi deals | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Link: MI6 and Blair at odds over Saudi deals | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited. So, if national security was not at stake – as the Attorney General claimed on behalf of the Prime Minister – what was? When a politician calls off an investigation into allegations of corruption on…
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Continue reading →: An unfortunate union
Today, as commentators everywhere are reminding us, is the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union (actually, there were two Acts) between England and Scotland. In recent days, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and others have been praising its success. They are wrong. The Act of Union has been an unmitigated…
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Continue reading →: How selfish are you?
You Are 53% Selfish You are quite balanced. You are able to compromise when it’s in the best interests of those involved. But you’re no pushover. If something is important to you, you’ll get it! How Selfish Are You?
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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…
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