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Continue reading →: The winners and losers of modern Russia
Link: BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | The winners and losers of modern Russia. I am not breaking my permanent rule about avoiding comments on Russian politics. I am a guest in Russia, and one does not criticise one’s hosts. I will merely observe that the…
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Continue reading →: One of Two Lions
One of two lions guarding the entrance to an apartment block in Central Moscow.
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Continue reading →: Straw: Is He Really In The Wrong?
Link: Cynical Chatter From The Underworld – Straw: Is He Really In The Wrong?. This is unbelievably clever politics from New Labour. Jack Straw has said nothing that could be criticised as racist. He has respected the wishes of women who want to wear the full veil. Only the most…
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Continue reading →: Dave the optimist
David Cameron is interesting. “Optimism,” he says, is the word that defines him. He admonishes Conservatives, warning us not to look back. As we age (I will be 50 next year) we acquire wisdom, cynicism and the problem of how to tell one from the other. I constantly check myself…
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Continue reading →: EnviroSpin Watch
Link: EnviroSpin Watch. Only recently I was denounced as a “climate change denier” (an irritating phrase, with its obvious attempt at subconscious association with “holocaust denier”). The Green doing the denouncing scoffed that it’s now equivalent to being a flat-earther. That’s annoying. I wasn’t denying the climate was changing. It…
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Continue reading →: Muslim PC wins right not to protect Israeli Embassy | the Daily Mail
Link: Muslim PC wins right not to protect Israeli Embassy | the Daily Mail. I suggest that all Christian, Jewish, gay and female police officers immediately file for permission not to be required to guard Muslim embassies or mosques or to respond to emergency calls to Muslim homes. They should…
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Continue reading →: This is not justice
Link: Telegraph | Comment | This is not justice. I am a yankophile. It’s a sad fact that to express this, I had to invent a word. The English language has more words than any other – more than twice as many as German, the next largest. In all this…
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Continue reading →: Wounded soldiers ‘get appalling health care’
Link: Telegraph | News | Wounded soldiers ‘get appalling health care’. I defer to no-one in my respect for our armed forces, but aren’t these stories rather missing the point? The ‘appalling’ health care that our soldiers are receiving is exactly the same as that for all Brits not fortunate…
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Continue reading →: How Cameron can win
Link: ‘Let sunshine win the day’, says Cameron the optimist – Britain – Times Online. David Cameron finally came up with a policy that will make it worth my while to register again as an overseas voter. Today he described ID Cards as Labour’s “plastic poll tax, twenty Millennium Domes…
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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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