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Continue reading →: The Socrates of the Saloon Bar (Blogpower Testimonial 3)
Link: Pub Philosopher. The title of the blog almost says it all. Isn’t "right wing" (how I hate that meaningless term) blogging the equivalent of the saloon bar philosophising of old? That’s what the snooty Guardianistas would have you believe, in between their bouts of haughtily running the lives of…
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Continue reading →: ‘If you move, Sir, one of us is going to die’ | the Daily Mail
Link: ‘If you move, Sir, one of us is going to die’ | the Daily Mail. Just for once, the Daily Mail presents a story that makes one think better of mankind. Perhaps even more surprisingly for the Mail, the story features a black man in honest employment who is…
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Continue reading →: Looking for a voice: Zimbabwe
Link: Looking for a voice: Zimbabwe. “Robert Mugabe in his twenty year rule has reduced the life expectancy of women from 65 to 34” Who says governments can’t make a difference?
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Continue reading →: School shock at vandal web video
Link: BBC NEWS | Education | School shock at vandal web video. Wouldn’t you just know that the spokesman of a teaching union would be more shocked by the use of the internet to publish a video of vandalism, than by the vandalism itself? Anyone would think YouTube committed the…
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Continue reading →: ‘Slicker than your average blog (Blogpower Testimonial 2)
Link: The Cityunslicker – Business and Politics. The Cityunslicker, as a well-written blog of sympathetic views, was a daily read for me even before Blogpower came along. I enjoy reading the ‘Slicker’s posts and appreciate the uncluttered layout of his site. Why, by the way, do so many bloggers go…
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Continue reading →: D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else
Link: D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else. This post is brilliant. Please read it. h/t The Devil’s Kitchen
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Continue reading →: Thinking about Bel (Blogpower Testimonial 1)
Bel is Thinking is one of my favourite blogs and this exercise, set by Blogpower’s headmaster, forced me to think why. I know Bel only through her posts, but I have the impression we have a few things in common. There are the obvious things, such as our profession (she…
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Continue reading →: Blogpowered testimonials
Link: defending the blog: Blog testimonials. I will fulfil my Blogpower obligation to review some or all of my fellow-Blogpowerers’ sites. Our great helmsman, James Higham, has already done so, as have CityUnslicker and Gracchi of Westminster Wisdom in the comments to James’ original request. It’s proving harder work than…
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Continue reading →: My Blog of the Year, 2006.
One of the most important British Blogs is “Burning Our Money” by Wat Tyler. Wat is an economist who formerly worked for a City bank. Now he devotes his energies to exposing Government waste. If your friends tell you that bloggers are ignorant, opinionated amateurs, send them to Wat. I…
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Continue reading →: Telegraph | Comment | In praise of the Union
Link: Telegraph | Comment | In praise of the Union. All of the achievments the Daily Telegraph’s leader writer claims for the Union would arguably have been greater without the dead weight of the ever-grumbling Scots. The Scottish employees who were of use did not need to be of the…
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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…
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