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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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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
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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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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.
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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…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
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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