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Continue reading →: Cameron’s approval ratings slide
Link: Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Cameron’s approval ratings slide. This is sad, but not surprising. The British people just don’t need another Tony Blair.
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Continue reading →: Muslim attitudes to Terrorism
Link: openDemocracy. This research was conducted in November 2004 and is very telling. Have a look at Table 2 which presents the percentage of respondents in national samples by Muslim country who labelled certain acts and events “terrorist”. Only 28% of Lebanese Muslims and 9% of Palestinian Muslims consider attacks…
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Continue reading →: More bad law?
If Mr Olbermann’s legal analysis is correct, then this new law is unconstitutional and, like the US PATRIOT Act, is just waiting for a concerned citizen to challenge it in the Supreme Court. The Constitution of the USA, perhaps the most perfect work of political man to date, says that…
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Continue reading →: A Secret Policeman Bawls
Link: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Britain implemented the EU’s Second Money Laundering Directive, partly by the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, which was enacted on 24 February 2003 and partly by the Money Laundering Regulations 2003, made by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, which came into force on…
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Continue reading →: Aberfan is remembered 40 years on
The Aberfan disaster, attributed to the National Coal Board, resulted in no prosecutions despite a tribunal’s findings. Villagers fought for the tip’s removal, eventually costing them £150,000. The government later repaid this amount but with no interest. Criticism arose regarding the lack of accountability for corporate negligence in the tragedy.
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Continue reading →: Reid on the attack in missing terror suspects row
Link: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Reid on the attack in missing terror suspects row. How long are we going to allow John Reid and his like to get away with such political scams? THEY introduced control orders; a form of house arrest. Having taken these shocking powers they…
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Continue reading →: The Trades Union Congress in Poland
Link: TUC at Warsaw Jobs Fair. Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary, said: “It’s vital that Poles and other migrant workers know their rights before they come to work in the UK. Otherwise they risk becoming sitting ducks for employers who delight in making money out of exploiting vulnerable workers.” After…
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Continue reading →: Freedom and Whisky
Link: Freedom and Whisky. David’s observation is interesting. Three of the top ten websites in the would-be Socialist Peoples’ Republic of Scotland are not merely conservative, but libertarian! Maybe it’s because Scots live in such a monochrome political culture that libertarians stand out like blood in the snow? Those sites…
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Continue reading →: Amazing Mars picture show planet’s ‘dramatic climate changes’ | the Daily Mail
Link: Amazing Mars picture show planet’s ‘dramatic climate changes’ | the Daily Mail. I read this while half watching some dimwit environmentalist on Sky News saying we must stop flying so much to prevent climate change. Obviously that’s where the Martians are going wrong.
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Continue reading →: Machine-gun the rioters, Blunkett ‘told’ prisons chief – Britain – Times Online
Link: Machine-gun the rioters, Blunkett ‘told’ prisons chief – Britain – Times Online. Would this man have ever known high office if he were not disabled? Blunkett is a useless man who has traded on sympathy for his blindness. But blind people, like sighted people, can be good and bad;…
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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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