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Continue reading →: General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal. The blogosphere is enjoying the Government’s embarrassment. I think Sir Richard should be fired. He is entitled to his views, but the Army exists to defend the realm and to implement with deadly force the foreign policy of the…
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Continue reading →: Judge critical of MI5 testimony
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | Judge critical of MI5 testimony. Executive summary: by a fluke, the Government’s secret police have been caught out giving contradictory evidence in secret trials involving terrorist suspects. One set of evidence (at least) was a pack of lies. Only Shami Chakrabarti, as usual, speaks…
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Continue reading →: The Mufti of Jerusalem and Friends
I am still smarting from hearing native Britons called “Nazis” on the MPAC-UK website for merely supporting Jack Straw’s suggestion that it would be good for integration if their women foreswore the “niqab” Here is an excerpt from a German TV documentary, which demonstrates how little right Muslims have to…
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Continue reading →: French in Armenia ‘genocide’ row
Link: BBC NEWS | World | Europe | French in Armenia ‘genocide’ row. This is where the logic of outlawing “Holocaust denial” takes us. If it’s illegal to deny one atrocity, why not another? While I despise the current fashion for apologising for history, I have some sympathy with the…
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Continue reading →: More soft paternalism | Samizdata.net
Link: More soft paternalism | Samizdata.net. Do read this post on Samizdata. Not just because the author makes a good point about the ideological flabbiness of the Daily Telegraph these days, but because of the amusing comment by Perry de Haviland. Secure mental hospitals for those with a compulsive psychological…
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Continue reading →: Harry’s Place: Let them eat guinea fowl
Link: Harry’s Place: Let them eat guinea fowl. Watching the odious Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on 18 Doughty Street last night reminded me of this article. This nasty, intolerant woman, who dismisses all of right-wing views with the words “…there will always be idiots…,” has made a career out of trashing the…
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Continue reading →: Guido, the [as yet] untold story
According to my RSS aggregator, the item below was just published on Guido Fawkes’ blog. So where did it go? Operation Ribble Update By Guido Fawkes Esq. Guido predicts that Detective Superintendent Graham McNulty will soon be saying the words: “Anthony Charles Lynton Blair you do not have to say…
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Continue reading →: Why Muslim women should thank Straw – Comment – Times Online
Link: Why Muslim women should thank Straw – Comment – Times Online. I have nothing to add to what Ms Khan has written. She is a brave woman. Her article makes me ashamed of having taken so much care to steer around the truths she has written for fear of…
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Continue reading →: Prescott backs right to wear veil
Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | Prescott backs right to wear veil. Thirty-odd years ago, I was one of two supporting actors in a touring youth theatre production who wore masks throughout our performances. We developed a cruel game (we were just 17 and pulling legs off insects had only…
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Continue reading →: Sir Ian Blair Says New Terror Attack Could Lead to Internment
Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: EXCLUSIVE: Sir Ian Blair Says New Terror Attack Could Lead to Internment. This seems to surprise Iain. It does not surprise me. This blog began because I felt I could not be silent about the police state that Labour seems determined to build. I am still…
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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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