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Continue reading →: Last Ditch “Blog of the Week”
Link: An Englishman’s Castle: The Prison Walls close in. The Englishman’s Castle is my first blog of the week. I have no complicated Iain Dale style marking system. I make my choice in an entirely subjective way. In this case, the citation reads “for providing me with the delightful image…
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Continue reading →: The Devil’s Kitchen: Hands off, you thieving bastards!
Link: The Devil’s Kitchen: Hands off, you thieving bastards!. The Devil’s Kitchen is a life-affirming, life-enhancing blog. Follow the link, head on over there and find out why. This particular post will also lead you to some of the best soldiers in the army of swearbloggers of which he is…
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Continue reading →: BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight | Comment on What’s the point of the Green Party?
Link: BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight | Comment on What’s the point of the Green Party?. Newsnight’s website has a forum discussion under the heading “What is the point of the Greens?”. It remains to be seen if they will publish my contribution (below), but why don’t you head…
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Continue reading →: BBC facing a double inquiry into Top Gear presenter’s jet-car crash – Law – Times Online
Link: BBC facing a double inquiry into Top Gear presenter’s jet-car crash – Law – Times Online. Modern Britain is a strange country. Richard Hammond was a grown man and an experienced driver. He chose to attempt the British land speed record in a drag car. This is an intrinsically…
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Continue reading →: Police deny De Menezes safety charge | Top News | Reuters.co.uk
Link: Police deny De Menezes safety charge | Top News | Reuters.co.uk. The Metropolitan Police is unwise to defend the stupid “health & safety” charges in relation to the death of Jean-Charles de Menezes. Better to kill the story quickly and accept a fine and a slap on the wrist than to drag it…
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Continue reading →: Comment Central – Weblog: Copycats
Link: Times Online – Comment Central – Weblog: Copycats. One does not expect even a remote outpost of the Murdoch media to make such a frank comparison as this!
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Continue reading →: Riots over Hungarian PM’s ‘lies’
Link: BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Riots over Hungarian PM’s ‘lies’ Imagine if British voters were to riot every time they learned their Prime Minister had lied.
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Continue reading →: BBC blames US for Iranian Air Crashes – Again
Link: Drinking From Home: BBC blames US for Iranian Air Crashes – Again Drinking from home is doing good work in identifying particular examples of BBC bias, in this case the BBC’s Tehran correspondent, Frances Harrison, trying to blame an aviation accident in Iran on US sanctions. It’s as ludicrous…
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Continue reading →: SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Ministers move to stop ‘safe’ convictions of criminals being quashed on appeal
Link: SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Ministers move to stop ‘safe’ convictions of criminals being quashed on appeal. Once again, John Reid talks of “rebalancing in favour of the victim”. Yet, like it or not, the “victim” is not part of the trial process. It is vile spin to identify the…
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Continue reading →: Sunday at the Mall in Moscow
Only in Moscow could you find a swimming pool (for demonstrating swimwear), a classic Jaguar, an antique shop selling a World War II machine gun and more staff than shoppers in a shopping centre on a Sunday afternoon.
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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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