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Continue reading →: Just Say No
Just Say No: The Spectator On The 1975 Referendum eBook: The Spectator, Toby Young, Constance Watson: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store. The Spectator has published a cheap E-book collecting its best pieces from the 1975 referendum debate. It's an interesting read. My recollection was that the "Common Market" was sold solely as…
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Continue reading →: Tony Benn’s five questions
My father and I were reminiscing today about the 1975 referendum on Britain's continued membership of "the Common Market." We both voted then to Remain. We are both voting this time to Leave. I reminded him that he had said to me at the time, "I am on the other side…
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Continue reading →: Enough about “trade deals” already.
Mark Wadsworth: Peter Lilley debunks “free trade deals”. Governments don’t trade goods and services. Companies and individuals do and governments get – more or less, according to how economically idiotic they are – in the way. Most “trade deals” are to remove tariffs created by governments in the first place.…
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Continue reading →: Congratulations. Your time share slavery is over for this year
It’s Tax Freedom Day: It may be the latest it’s been since 2001 but you’re finally earning for yourself and not the government | City A.M.. By the way. Its US equivalent was April 24.
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Continue reading →: Trips to Warsaw and Moscow this month
It’s been a while since I traveled far so I am excited to be visiting two of my former home cities in the course of the next month. I shall be in Warsaw from June 18 to 21 and in Moscow from June 29 to July 3. Sadly these are…
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Continue reading →: Greatest hits
Now that the blog is being sailed out to battle again I have been battening down the hatches. In its occasional role as a travel journal, it had become a bit cosy in appearance and the sidebar had been put into storage. One of my tasks for the day is to…
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Continue reading →: The Brexit message crosses the Atlantic
Many Americans instinctively favour the European Union because it resembles – from a distance – the USA itself. It’s not surprising that the citizens of a successful federal superstate favour the countries their ancestors fled seemingly copying the model they adopted in the New World. The idea that Britain might leave the…
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Continue reading →: Parisian anecdote
One January, more than a decade ago, I was attending an industry conference in Paris. The organisers for some reason had scheduled a debate about the EU. A well-known Eurosceptic whose blushes I shall spare was scheduled to speak but failed to show. The chairman (not the most impartial I…
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Continue reading →: The most dangerous man alive
Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) is my political hero. I didn’t adopt his name as a nom de guerre because I agreed with all he wrote. I hubristically purloined it because I admired the force of his writing. “Common Sense” was the most influential pamphlet in the history…
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Continue reading →: On not over Stating our case
My Sunday Times today has an article about the booze culture of Westminster. It’s an interesting enough piece but what struck me most was the title; "Drunk in charge of the nation". Are our political leaders — drunk or sober — really in charge? Does the government "run the economy?"…
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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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