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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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Continue reading →: Cameron’s Anniversary interview
Link: Telegraph | News| The full transcript of Cameron’s interview. There is no point in voting while the Conservatives are in a political cartel with New Labour and the (not very)LibDems. If we must have a mega-state of social workers, it is probably better run by a man who believes…
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Continue reading →: Their man in Moscow
This morning I listened to the US Ambassador speak to the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow. In 15 years abroad, I have found American diplomats to be consistently more impressive than our own. Ambassador William J. Burns was no exception. Like every American diplomat I have met he gave…
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Continue reading →: FreeBornJohn: The Unconscionable Cruelty of Polly T
Link: FreeBornJohn: The Unconscionable Cruelty of Polly T. Please read the linked post. It is a heartfelt, passionate condemnation of that appalling fake Polly Toynbee and all her ilk. It is also terribly sad. Only constant state intervention could have created the particular horrors FreeBornJohn so eloquently describes. Polly’s pernicious…
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Continue reading →: Scots split would harm UK – Brown
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | Scots split would harm UK – Brown. The only person South of the Border that Mr Brown is concerned about is Mr Brown. His career prospects would be severely limited if Scotland and England were finally to stop fighting like kittens in a sack…
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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…
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…
Maybe they should be legally required to only provide halal to muslims or those that request it. If you are…
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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…