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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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Continue reading →: Tony Blair’s ‘sorrow’ over slave trade | the Daily Mail
Link: Tony Blair’s ‘sorrow’ over slave trade | the Daily Mail. As my uncle always said if I tried to delve into the historical causes of modern problems, “…if you go back far enough, people used to eat each other.” What will Blair apologise for next on our behalf? Cannibalism?…
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Continue reading →: How I Became An Official Zombie
Link: How I Became An Official Zombie. Is this a glimpse of our future? h/t Martine Martin
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Continue reading →: The most dangerous phrase
Before blogging saved me (and condemned my readers) I was a terrible bore. If I encountered a fellow-Brit at a social event, I would hold forth at impassioned length about New Labour and its apparent desire to march us all to New Jerusalem through an arch emblazoned “Arbeit macht frei”…
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Continue reading →: Now there are spy cameras at rubbish tips | the Daily Mail
Link: Now there are spy cameras at rubbish tips | the Daily Mail. I must be a true optimist. When I first read this headline, I thought the government had realised the error of its ways and consigned the apparatus of State surveillance to its rightful end. Well, a man…
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Continue reading →: Top Ten Things I Would Never Do…
Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: Top Ten Things I Would Never Do…. I have been tagged by Tin Drummer to do my own version of this, so here it is. 1. Vote Labour 2. Convert to Islam 3. Give up hope that England will restore habeas corpus 4. Carry a British…
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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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