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Continue reading →: End Labour deputy post, MPs urge
Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | End Labour deputy post, MPs urge. It would be good if they would show the same concern for the nation’s finances by abolishing the utterly pointless office of “Deputy Prime Minister.” Actually, they could usefully demolish his office. Preferably with the old rogue in…
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Continue reading →: Culture at the Mall
http://update.videoegg.com/js/PlayerCustom.jsvar api = VE_getCustomPlayerAPI(‘1.0’);api.embedPlayer(‘/gid328/cid1096/FG/UO/1165696882leC9eEJS6Da60DnD38Da’, 320, 260, false, ”, ‘videoegg’, false, ”, ‘opaque’); These synchronised swimmers were performing water ballet at the shopping mall in Moscow today. No jeers. No lewd remarks. The onlookers watched seriously and applauded politely. Only the English – barbarised by the Welfare State and Comprehensive Education…
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Continue reading →: Government; the ultimate organised crime
Some years ago I got talking to a man on a train. He was senior adviser to the then Education Minister. He told me a story of which he was proud. The large stores on Oxford Street had complained about shoplifting by pupils from local schools during lunch breaks. He…
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Continue reading →: Now child benefit will start in late pregnancy
Link: Telegraph | Business| Now child benefit will start in late pregnancy. How interesting that this article is in the Telegraph’s “Business” section. The only people for whom “baby farming” is a business in Britain are the members of the drug-addled underclass. As respectable working couples have smaller families in…
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Continue reading →: Praguetory: Rock da House
Link: Praguetory: Rock da House. Always good value, Praguetory kicks off a debate about House of Lords reform. Every new proposal from the Government and what passes for HM Opposition seems to be less and less democratic, so some new ideas are certainly needed. The whole issue is, of course,…
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Continue reading →: Blair To Set Out Nuclear Missile Plan
Link: Sky News: Blair To Set Out Nuclear Missile Plan. Sky News never queries government expenditure on social services or foreign aid. After all, many of its viewers pay their subscriptions from social security and giving “charity” to African dictators provides a cost-free charitable glow. The channel merely mirrors the…
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Continue reading →: Mr Eugenides: MP’s pay scandal
Link: Mr Eugenides: MP’s pay scandal. I have nothing to add to this, which made me spill my evening drink. Thanks, Mr. Eugenides. I could never have believed that such a story could make me laugh. It really is scandalous that our elected representatives are so poorly remunerated for their…
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Continue reading →: Scotland go it alone? What a hoot.
Link: Anti-enterprise Scotland go it alone? What a hoot – Sunday Times – Times Online. One recent calculation estimates that just 163,000 Scottish taxpayers, from a population of 5m, make any net contribution to the British exchequer. The rest receive more than they pay out in reliefs, subsidies and benefits.…
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Continue reading →: A picture of a ditch
This is a graphical representation of the contents of this blog. Who says my stuff is not accessible, eh? If you want the same for any website of your choosing, hi thee to this site. For reasons too mysterious for non-nerds to comprehend, the graph develops and grows in a…
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Continue reading →: Hotel angry at Union Flag protest
Link: BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Hotel angry at Union Flag protest. This sort of nonsense is why (although I have as much a claim to do so as any of these petty-minded village idiots) I would never now choose to describe myself as “Welsh.” If…
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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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