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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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Continue reading →: BNP ballerina defies rising clamour to sack her
Link: BNP ballerina defies rising clamour to sack her | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. I have two questions. Firstly, what right does an employer have to police the political views of its employees? Secondly, when Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain says that: Questions need to…
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Continue reading →: Rival parties unite to fight for a bill of rights | Politics | The Observer
Link: Rival parties unite to fight for a bill of rights | Politics | The Observer. This is the most encouraging story of what has been a dreadful year for those who care about civil liberties. Let’s hope it sets the tone for a splendid 2007. I wish all of…
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Continue reading →: Ritzy Justice
An Irish judge in the 19th century, Sir James Mathew (1830-1908) is supposed to have said “In England, justice is open to all – like the Ritz Hotel.” Learning from our mistakes, the French have done their best to improve their own access to justice, as these pictures demonstrate.
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Continue reading →: German politician tells heckler to shave
Link: Telegraph | News | German politician tells heckler to shave . To me, the interesting aspect of this story is that a left-wing German politician could say what would be politically-unthinkable in Britain, where “the most vulnerable members of society” are, in truth, those who work for a living…
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Continue reading →: Burning our money: Honouring Failure
Link: Burning our money: Honouring Failure. I am off to enjoy Paris with my family. I can do no better than recommend you to Wat Tyler’s post about the New Year’s Honours List. Nothing could tell you more about our Government’s warped view of the world.
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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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