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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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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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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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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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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…