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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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Continue reading →: Fund manager raises alarm over dropping of BAE inquiry
Link: Fund manager raises alarm over dropping of BAE inquiry | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. I am an English-qualified commercial lawyer, practising in Moscow. My government’s Christmas present to me has been to make my work more difficult. Western clients negotiating joint ventures with Russian companies are anxious…
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Continue reading →: Baby dies and five are infected as bacteria strain infests neonatal unit
Link: Telegraph | News | Baby dies and five are infected as bacteria strain infests neonatal unit. Imagine the scandal if this tragedy were to occur at a private hospital. “Our NHS” kills with impunity however. Bill Bryson once wrote that Britain is one place where Communism might actually have…
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Continue reading →: Tagged: The 7 best things I have done this year
James Higham has tagged me, so I must do my duty. I am not tagging anyone else though. These things have to end somewhere and it might as well be with me. Reading them over, I can’t see why anyone else would be interested as they are all terribly personal.…
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Continue reading →: Bloggers not the equivalent of Tom Paine
Link: The Leaf Chronicle – www.theleafchronicle.com – Clarksville, TN. It is good to know that my namesake is so valued in Clarksville, Tennessee – even if that esteem is manifested in a desire to defend his shade from the accusation (made by Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine) that…
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Continue reading →: How Labour buys its votes | the Daily Mail
Link: How Labour buys its votes | the Daily Mail. Conservative leader Dave Cameron may at least be relied upon not to indulge in such corrupt practices. He doesn’t even like his voters.
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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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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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