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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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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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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.
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“…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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