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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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Continue reading →: Warsaw by night
I visited my old home town this week. I lived in Warsaw for 11 years and my children grew up there. It is delightfully provincial, even cute, compared to Moscow. Here are some night shots.
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Continue reading →: Thomas Paine
Link: Thomas Paine. Occasionally, I am criticised for using Tom Paine as my “nom de blog.” Leftists, in particular, object. They see good old Tom, once known as “the most dangerous man alive” as one of their own. They base this on his early promotion of income tax, social security,…
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Continue reading →: CF Diary: Martine Martin: How to make a “Tory Girl” from scratch
Link: CF Diary: Martine Martin: How to make a “Tory Girl” from scratch. Martine Martin’s experience of education turned her from Labour to Conservative. I found her CF article quite touching. It reminded me of my own counter-educational experiences at the hands of the Labour Party, which I have blogged…
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Continue reading →: 007 in Moscow
Casino Royale, playing today at a cinema on Novy Arbat in Moscow. What would Rosa Klebb think?
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Continue reading →: Do we have an Opposition?
Link: EU Referendum. EU Referendum has the courage to ask a question which could scarcely be more rhetorical. Meanwhile, Iain Dale lamely encourages our underequipped and otherwise neglected troops to do Dave Cameron’s job, while a New Labour stool pigeon commenting anonymously in response to Iain’s post stimulates a cathartic…
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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.…