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Continue reading →: Mais bien sûr
Your Inner European is French! Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything – at least, *you* think so. Who’s Your Inner European? Hat tip to Nourishing Obscurity.
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Continue reading →: Cruella-blog: Unbelievable…
Link: Cruella-blog: Unbelievable…. Hat tip to Dr Crippen for leading me to this delicious post. I entirely agree that we atheists should get priority for medical treatment over you religious types. We need to get the most out of this life as it’s all we have. Why should it be…
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Continue reading →: Who is Not Saussure? Blogpower Testimonial 7
Link: Not Saussure. Not Saussure is a newish blog (est. August 2006) and I could have read the posts from beginning to date quite quickly. I didn’t, because I became intrigued. Like most people, when I enjoy someone’s writing, I tend to become curious about the person behind it. There…
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Continue reading →: Take the Libertarian Purity Test
Link: Libertarian Purity Test. I scored 79, which apparently translates to: You are a medium-core libertarian, probably self-consciously so. Your friends probably encourage you to quit talking about your views so much. Damn. I was sure I would be hard core. He’s right about my friends though. Hat tip to…
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Continue reading →: In the dragons’ den
My recent long holiday allowed the luxury of catching up with old friends. One of them looks like Dylan Thomas and comes from the same neck of Milk Wood. His idea of fun was to fill his house with my bogeymen; NHS administrators, Welsh Office bureaucrats, Comprehensive School headmasters, Scots…
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Continue reading →: Bob Piper : Education… education, and, errm…
Link: Bob Piper : Education… education, and, errm…. I love the way that any actual application of the main socialist idea of an economy under social control is dismissed as “not really socialism” and even “not really communism” Once you opt for political, not market, economic controls and move towards…
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Continue reading →: The Tin Drummer (Blogpower Testimonial 6)
Link: The Tin Drummer. Last July, a new blog began with these words. The start of a new era; like everyone else in the world I have a blog. Excellent. I can satisfy my narcisstic longings, imagining that people are hanging on my every word when in fact no-one is…
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Continue reading →: Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe (Blogpower Testimonial 5)
Link: Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe. Of all the Blogpowerers, Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe is perhaps the closest to what most people imagine a blog to be. Well perhaps that’s a bit unfair. The author Colin Campbell, a "transplanted Scot" in Australia, is not a teenager posting chattily and ungrammatically about…
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Continue reading →: Obscure intellectual nourishment (Blogpower Testimonial 4)
Link: nourishing obscurity. The Blogpower bloggers have nothing in common but difference. Their distinct personalities come through both in their writing and the visual style of their blogs. Of no-one is this more true than of our founding father, James Higham. His blog, nourishing obscurity, attempts something to which I…
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Continue reading →: CORPORATE PRESENTER: Set your goals
Link: CORPORATE PRESENTER: Set your goals. Being tagged with these memes is tiring (I still haven’t got around to the one from yesterday), but netiquette seems to require a response. So here goes. Yes. Yes. Not applicable. Possibly/No. A little hung-over, but otherwise great; thanks for asking. Enjoy your goal-setting,…
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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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