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Continue reading →: A strenuous day
Yesterday I rose in Moscow at 0230 British time to catch an early plane to London. I finally reached my bed at 0230 this morning. After some shopping and other fun in London, I arrived at the Marquis of Granby pub just off Smith Square yesterday evening. In a function…
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Continue reading →: Motorists risk jail for using phones in car
Link: Motorists risk jail for using phones in car | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. There is so much free space in British jails that the Government wants to fill them with mobile phone users. Not to mention people who have been involved in car accidents – even if…
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Continue reading →: Tories rethink A-list after ‘Londoncentric’ charge | the Daily Mail
Link: Tories rethink A-list after ‘Londoncentric’ charge | the Daily Mail. The A List is a constitutional issue. Why? The British Constitution is just three words long; "Parliament is sovereign." Whatever Parliament says, goes. Whether they want liberty or death camps or anything in between, the choice is with Members…
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Continue reading →: Bob Piper : Time to reflect
Link: Bob Piper : Time to reflect. Bob Piper is going to take a break from blogging. That is sad. Whether or not his republication of the “Ministry of Truth” satire was well-judged, those of us on the right still want Britain to be a free country. Free speech means…
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Continue reading →: Expulsions ‘fuelled by prejudice’
Link: BBC NEWS | Education | Expulsions ‘fuelled by prejudice’. Three times as many black children as white children are expelled from school. Allegedly, this is because of “institutional racism.” An Ofsted report in 1999 warned that many schools are “institutionally racist”, citing evidence that Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean and…
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Continue reading →: Tim Worstall: Augusto Pinochet Dies
Link: Tim Worstall: Augusto Pinochet Dies. My quote of the day: if you’re going to break eggs, can you at least manage to make the damn omlette? You’re going to have to read Tim’s post in full to understand the context.
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Continue reading →: No school, no job for record numbers – Britain – Times Online
Link: No school, no job for record numbers – Britain – Times Online. A young bricklayer in an acquaintance’s family is currently trapped in the new worker’s “Catch 22”. He can’t get a job because he has no experience. He can’t get experience because he can’t get a job. So…
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Continue reading →: She will always be our beautiful girl. She was not just a prostitute
Link: Telegraph | News | She will always be our beautiful girl. She was not just a prostitute . The spate of killings in Ipswich bears all the signs of those periodic horrors of its kind. Some inadequate, self-loathing male asserts the power of life and death over defenceless girls.…
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Continue reading →: Toyota factory turns landscape to arid wilderness
Link: Toyota factory turns landscape to arid wilderness | the Mail on Sunday. Regularly, idiot celebs enhance their “Green” credentials by buying the Toyota Prius (although how many actually drive the revolting object is another matter). This, despite the fact that research shows that “dust to dust” (from production to…
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Continue reading →: More images from the Mall
The Jaguar XK140 I photographed back in September is still at our local shopping mall. Now it has been joined by this splendid 60’s Corvette Stingray. Unfortunately I didn’t have a proper camera with me, but I hope this effort from my phone is at least web-worthy. My wife was…
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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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