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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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Continue reading →: Revolution Number Nine « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Link: Revolution Number Nine « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG. The Police Inspector Blog, by “Inspector Gadget” is one of my daily reads. His writing is droll and he points up the absurdities which are to be found in policing as much as in any other line of work. Nothing he has…
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Continue reading →: Sinclair’s Musings: The strange death of my libertarianism
Link: Sinclair’s Musings: The strange death of my libertarianism. This is an interesting post. Many of us are so accustomed to having the State to hand as the solution to our pet problem, that the idea of having no recourse to it is terrifying. In consequence, many of us are…
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Continue reading →: Rumour of the day
Link: Aelo.fr. Création de sites Internet à Strasbourg, traduction de sites Web, en Alsace, département 67 et département 68.. Let’s hope it’s true.
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Continue reading →: CIOB Signs Up to Anti-Corruption Forum
Link: CIOB – CIOB Signs Up to Anti-Corruption Forum. I know this is “old news.” I only link to it because when I have previously mentioned here and elsewhere that I knew of demands for bribes from Health & Safety Executive employees, I was asked if I was sure it…
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Continue reading →: The Remittance Man: Richard Hammond
Link: The Remittance Man: Richard Hammond. Well said Remittance Man. “Steve Irwin and Richard Hammond. High priests of the real man’s “fuck you” to the safety nazis. Long may their spirit reign.” Ask yourself the question, would you prefer to meet Steve Irwin or Richard Hammond for a beer, or…
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Continue reading →: Rachel from north London: THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED
Link: Rachel from north London: THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED. Go read Rachel’s verses. Please. They are everything I have wordily said on my blog for the last 18 months, cleverly condensed. Well done, Rachel.
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Continue reading →: Oatens caught up in military coup
Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | Oatens caught up in military coup. Poor Mrs Oaten. Doesn’t she realise that, for so long as she stays with him, she will always end up in the ****? And did no stray thoughts cross her mind when he suggested Bangkok for their holidays?…
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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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