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Continue reading →: Revealed: Cameron’s honours for cronies
Revealed: Cameron’s honours for cronies | News | The Times & The Sunday Times. Remember all those business folk who spoke out so strongly for the "Remain" campaign; predicting economic collapse in the wake of their threatened withdrawal of investment? Remember how they retreated from their threats when the result…
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Continue reading →: Crime in London
The Metropolitan Police crime map makes for interesting viewing, particularly when you drill down to the more specific data. My own manor shows as "Low or no crime" for burglary and violence (hurrah!) but "High" for thefts from vehicles. I am puzzled why that should be, but happy that Speranza has her…
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Continue reading →: Reawakening Europe, but to what?
Reawakening Europe by Joschka Fischer – Project Syndicate. If you find yourself in a dark and dangerous place and you need to find your way to safety, there is usually more than one route. Once you have set out on one of the possible paths, however, that's easy to forget.…
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Continue reading →: The Thoughts Of Chairman Dave
The Thoughts Of Chairman Dave | Dick Puddlecote. I agree with almost every word of Brother Puddlecote's critique of David Aaronovitch's article on the obesity "epidemic". I only question his focus on "lefties" and their "belief in the weakness of all humans". Quite a lot of "righties" believe in that too.…
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Continue reading →: Twitter loses the zeitgeist
Milo Suspended Permanently by Twitter Minutes Before 'Gays For Trump' Party At RNC – Breitbart. Milo Yiannopolous is anathema to the authoritarian, control freak Left*. He is the man their "Free speech, but …" line was made for. A flamboyant homosexual who wages war on political correctness by "triggering" leftist…
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Continue reading →: A gentle suggestion for Ms Sturgeon
I am all for the Acts of Union as long as they are practised consensually. If Ms Sturgeon really wants Scotland out of the UK but in the EU, we can help. At the time of the Scottish referendum, the EU Commission legal advisers confirmed that, had Scotland left the…
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Continue reading →: Too Many Laws?
Too Many Laws: Why Police Encounters Escalate | Mises Wire. The linked article from the Mises Institute blog contains interesting statistics on police activity in the USA. Dealing with violent crime constitutes only a small minority of what police deal with on a daily basis. For example, in 2014, out of 11,205,833 arrests…
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Continue reading →: Facebook bias? Pish posh.
Men’s Rights Facebook Page A Voice For Men Removed On Day Of Annual Conference – Breitbart. Freedom of speech is only an issue as against a government, which in a free society must always be prevented from using its monopoly on initiating lawful violence to suppress dissent. Facebook is a private company and has as much…
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Continue reading →: THINK – The Economics of Change | Institute of Economic Affairs
THINK – The Economics of Change | Institute of Economic Affairs. I thought some of you might like to watch in full the talk at the IEA's "Think" conference last year that was referenced in my previous post. Dr Stephen Davis, the IEA's Director of Education, talks about driverless cars,…
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Continue reading →: The state of the nation and the world
It has been an astonishing few weeks in British politics and – while I believe our events are specific to our circumstances – there does seem to be a pattern emerging in the affairs of Mankind as a whole. So let's take pause and summarise where we stand. I will…
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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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