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Continue reading →: Blair will face police ‘within weeks’ on loans
Link: Blair will face police ‘within weeks’ on loans | News | This is London. I am not sure which rumour I would prefer to prove true. This one, or the recent one about bin Laden’s death. Given the track record of this government on taking responsibility for its actions,…
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Continue reading →: It’s This Bad by Theodore Dalrymple
Link: It’s This Bad by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Spring 2006. Theodore Dalrymple, as I fear I must do, has given up on his native land and retired to France. He writes eloquently, as always, on the causes of his disillusionment.
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Continue reading →: The case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash
Link: Telegraph | News | The case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash. Does anyone really believe the government cares if speed cameras reduce accidents? They are so wedded to their automated tax-collectors that they would build more even if they increased road deaths.
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Continue reading →: R. North -vs- The British Blogosphere
Link: EU Referendum. Any new medium, for a while, unites those who use it. Years ago, I had a pre-internet email account on a client’s global private network. We happy few “users” played with the new informal conventions of electronic communication. They were, in those days, shaped largely by the…
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Continue reading →: The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Idemeneo and the Poltroons
Link: The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Idemeneo and the Poltroons. It seems to me that Kirsten Harms has profoundly insulted the religion of peace by assuming that a scene in the opera Idomeneo, in which the King of Crete brandishes the severed heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed, would lead…
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Continue reading →: Red Storm Rising « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Link: Red Storm Rising « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG. Inspector Gadget has a 14 day grace period, but it seems his employers have discovered his blog. Why not head over there and leave some words of encouragement? I am very impressed by his reaction. Most wage-earners would have gone quiet until…
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Continue reading →: YouTube – CAIR Rep reacts to Ohio Car Dealer’s ‘Jihad’ Radio Ads
Link: YouTube – CAIR Rep reacts to Ohio Car Dealer’s ‘Jihad’ Radio Ads. Why don’t we have TV interviewers like this?
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Continue reading →: Talk about Newsnight | What’s the point of the Green Party?
Link: BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight | What’s the point of the Green Party?. The debate about “What is the point of the Green Party?” continues over at the Newsnight site, with toys being thrown out of Green prams at mild challenges to their orthodoxy. All quite amusing. My…
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Continue reading →: Richard is winning his fight
Link: The Sun Online – News: ‘Richard is winning his fight’. I am no Sun reader, but this is an article everyone should read. Well done Jeremy, and good luck with your fight.
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Continue reading →: An Englishman’s Castle: Dr Brown’s Casebook
Link: An Englishman’s Castle: Dr Brown’s Casebook. Only in the blogosphere can one find quite such robust political imagery; Gordon Brown’s appeal to the English electorate compared memorably to the unsubtle antics of a pig on heat, for example…
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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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