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Continue reading →: EU Referendum
Link: EU Referendum. This post is well-researched, well-written and scary. We should all be concerned at the rise in popularity of the BNP. When all conventional parties are “triangulating” each others’ marginal voters, this may be how those they take for granted strike back. I grew up in the Labour…
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Continue reading →: Wrong problem, wrong solution
Link: Telegraph | News | Wrong problem, wrong solution. This is fascinating stuff. Read it while you still can. According to the author, “On Thursday, Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, compared climate sceptics to advocates of Islamic terror. Neither, she said, should have access to the media.” If that is…
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Continue reading →: Bel is thinking …: Nick Griffin – the right verdict
Link: Bel is thinking …: Nick Griffin – the right verdict. Bel responds in a thoughtful, intelligent way to the Nick Griffin verdict. I worry about where we go from here. As a libertarian, I would leave the likes of Griffin free to say what he likes, however disgusting. Just…
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Continue reading →: The Devil’s Kitchen: ChipPin’ away at fraud
Link: The Devil’s Kitchen: ChipPin’ away at fraud. DK’s mum is on the campaign trail. She has discovered that chip and pin details are retained in the store machine’s memory for 40 minutes after your transaction. This is, supposedly, to allow the store to make late charges and corrections discovered…
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Continue reading →: Gaudi’s Architecture
Love it or hate it, Gaudi’s architecture is unmistakable. This photograph was taken on my first trip to Barcelona, earlier this week. It’s a great city. I am sure I will go again.
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Continue reading →: Daniel Dewsbury 2
Link: Duncan Borrowman: Daniel Dewsbury. More on the outcome from Duncan Borrowman.
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Continue reading →: Daniel Dewsbury
Link: Praguetory Victory? At any rate the Labour Party has made him an acceptable offer, which is good. I am very pleased for him. Praguetory has the details.
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Continue reading →: The UK Daily Pundit: Bring Out Your Dead
Link: The UK Daily Pundit: Bring Out Your Dead. This made me laugh more than anything else in the last week.
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Continue reading →: Pope still Catholic
Link: Burning our money: You don’t say. A nicely tongue-in-cheek assessment of a very dangerous situation. In the Soviet Union, there was an abundance of scientists because “hard” science was less vulnerable to ideological pressure. New Labour, however, has “modernised” that too.
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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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