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Continue reading →: Left, Right, Wrong
The traditional political division into 'left' and 'right' must be used with caution. For much of Europe 'right-wing' refers to nationalist authoritarians seeking to impose traditional values on society at large. I would be uncomfortable in such company. No right-winger on the Continent and few in America would share my…
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Continue reading →: Voltaire’s wisdom forgotten
BBC News – 'Troll' Gordon Mullen sentenced over April Jones web abuse. It's hard to like Gordon Mullen. He posted nasty remarks on Facebook about a little girl who was missing. She was later, sadly, found to have been murdered. Not by him, I hasten to add. I like…
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Continue reading →: Does this analysis ring any bells with you?
The State Causes the Poverty It Later Claims to Solve – Andreas Marquart – Mises Daily. I don't think I have read a better account of what it has been like to live under crypto-Keynesian governments for most of my life. Do please go read the whole thing.
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Continue reading →: What you are, not what you want
I learned during my long-ago university days of the key historical change from 'status' to 'contract'. In a sense, modern civilisation began when, not only were rulers subject to the law, but your legal obligations depended not on who you were but what you had agreed. No more jus primae…
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Continue reading →: Getting into the Christmas spirit
I am finding it hard this year. Cards are unwritten, presents unbought or at best not wrapped. But this video helped, as well as bringing back happy memories of driving the Fiorano circuit on my training course last year. Whatever you do, don't try this at home girls and…
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Continue reading →: Does Lord Lucan know where freedom of expression went?
BBC News – ITV's Lord Lucan drama criticised by victim's son. I returned to live in Britain in April 2011. It was a while before I began to notice some of the changes since I left in 1992. Heraclitus said No man ever steps in the same river twice, for…
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Continue reading →: Thought-Crime or mere Expatitis?
I often wonder how different my view of today’s Britain would be if I had not lived abroad for 20 years. Expats often find it hard to resettle in their home country. Sometimes they are not “comparing apples with apples” when reviewing their life in a low-wage country against that…
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Continue reading →: Hypocrisy, thy name is Labour
The Paul Flowers affair confirms it: 2015 will be a dirty election | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian. Here's a simple thought experiment for all leftists feeling aggrieved at the 'smear' that crystal meth user Paul Flowers, late of the Co-op Bank (lender to the Labour…
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Continue reading →: Power crazed head teacher threatens to label 8-year olds racists if their parents fail to follow her orders
School children as young as 8 told they would be labelled 'racist' for missing school trip – Telegraph. Click to enlarge and marvel at the arrogance of the state's servants When I tell my friends abroad about life in modern Britain, they think I exaggerate. This story illustrates just how…
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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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