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Continue reading →: A rare example of justice
Link: Saddam Hussein executed | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited. Most of the world’s tyrants die in their beds; their lives an encouragement to others to try their wicked path to wealth and power. Saddam Hussein did no good in his life. Perhaps, by the manner of his death, he may…
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Continue reading →: Cabinet minister joins protest over hospital | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Link: Cabinet minister joins protest over hospital | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. Among the many things the chipmunk doesn’t understand, apparently, is Cabinet responsibility. Who will rid us of these idiots?
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Continue reading →: The key’s rusted in the lock now, but apparently this is how it worked.
The Keys to Your Heart You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you’re told that you’re loved. You’d like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to…
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Continue reading →: An Englishman’s Castle: Tory Top Twelve
Link: An Englishman’s Castle: Tory Top Twelve. The Englishman has posted the “Tory Top Twelve” of heroes, commenting critically on the selections and inviting other nominations. What fun for Boxing Day! He has been kind enough not to tag his fellow-bloggers with it so, on a purely voluntary basis, why…
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Continue reading →: It will be hard living in exile.
You Belong in the UK Blimey! A little proper, a little saucy. You’re so witty and charming… No one notices your curry breath What English Speaking Country Are You? A jaunty tip of the Christmas titfer to Colin Campell
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Continue reading →: 2006 – a vintage year for triumphs and stupidities | Samizdata.net
Link: 2006 – a vintage year for triumphs and stupidities | Samizdata.net. Here is a post on one of my favourite serious blogs, which takes a more learned approach than my own in demolishing Will Hutton’s latest edifice of flawed logic. I hope it helps you digest your turkey.
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Continue reading →: Jeremy Clarkson – The Good The Bad The Ugly [2006]: DVD: Clarkson
Link: Amazon.co.uk: Jeremy Clarkson – The Good The Bad The Ugly [2006]: DVD: Clarkson. My Christmas tradition includes, as regular readers would guess, the Jeremy Clarkson DVD. Last year’s was not so great and this one started badly with a dose of his least endearing feature; his anti-Americanism. However, it…
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Continue reading →: 2006: a vintage year for ideas that will change our world
Link: 2006: a vintage year for ideas that will change our world | Comment | The Observer. Will Hutton, over at the The Observer, is wondering (among other things) what makes us happy, and reaching predictable conclusions. For two or three decades, economists and philosophers have questioned whether technology and…
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Continue reading →: A door in England
I am still looking for something Christmassy to write about. Here’s a picture of the front door of Paine Towers to be getting on with…
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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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