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Continue reading →: Even the Guardian is sometimes right
Brexit is the only way the working class can change anything | Lisa Mckenzie | Opinion | The Guardian. I think the author of the linked article may be on to something. The working classes have had a hard time of it in Britain in my lifetime. Yes our growing…
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Continue reading →: Sad but irrelevant.
People are understandably emotional in the aftermath of the murder of Jo Cox MP. Her husband’s feelings right now are all too sadly familiar to me and I am sure all our thoughts are with him and his bereft children. She was a political foe but her death diminishes us…
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Continue reading →: Out – and into the world: why The Spectator is for Leave
Out – and into the world: why The Spectator is for Leave. I subscribed to The Spectator today because it seems to be the only publication consistently speaking for the best interests of the people of Britain. Now I have to decide if my decades-long subscription to The Economist should go…
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Continue reading →: US Homicide Rate varies inversely with gun ownership
FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low | Mises Wire. Mass shootings like Orlando make headlines and rightly so. They are disgusting and they certainly justify state authorities using their powers to review people applying to obtain or renew gun licences as, at present, they often don't. They also justify…
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Continue reading →: An assault on the English Language
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Moving the goalposts on malnutrition. If you don’t disapprove of something that annoys them, the new puritans of the Left will redefine it. Their objective seems to be to warp the language until it’s scarcely possible to discuss anything except upon their terms. Redefining “poverty” in…
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Continue reading →: Of circular firing squads
The Left Chose Islam Over Gays. Now 100 People Are Dead Or Maimed In Orlando – Breitbart. The undeniable failure of the USSR, the introduction of free markets in the PRC and their “betrayal” by the workers who flocked to Thatcher for cheap houses and BT shares in the UK put the authoritarians of the Left…
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Continue reading →: The lesson of Orlando
The Orlando massacre tells us nothing about the killer save that he was insane, but it’s telling us a lot about ourselves. Just look at the politicians warning of islamophobia. The people virtue-signalling on Facebook. The triggered leftist storming off British TV because he thought the discussion was focussing on…
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Continue reading →: A message to our European neighbours
A cultured Polish friend posted this clip on Facebook today to explain Britain's odd attitude to the European Union. It's only funny because it contains a grain of truth. "Divide and rule" is comic overstatement however. Unlike France, Germany, Russia and even Poland (in the days of the Polish-Lithuanian Empire) our hands are clean…
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Continue reading →: Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust
EU referendum: Who in Britain wants to leave, and who wants to remain? I tire of the Remain campaign's "it's their future" meme, which suggests that older people should vote according to the majority pro-EU views of the young. It's insulting to older voters who know they would live through the short-term disruption that…
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Continue reading →: Things to come
Perhaps it’s too soon to be worrying about the aftermath of the EU referendum. Magnanimity in victory is all very well, but let’s have victory first. Or failing that, let’s not be good losers until we have actually lost. There is going to be a price to pay regardless of…
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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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