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Continue reading →: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
NHS hospital death rates among worst, new study finds – Channel 4 News. It’s a good job I am unlikely to reach my maximum age in this country, because I don’t think I could stand many more years of listening to the bureaucrats in Britain’s soviet healthcare system. Here they…
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Continue reading →: Remembering 9/11
There are no more words to say. This image – by Ira Block, the lead tutor at the photographic course I attended in NYC earlier this year – says it all for me today. Here's to the memory of those who fell and to the families who still suffer the…
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Continue reading →: Drones that play The Lumineers as they attack
Is this or is this not utterly brilliant? It was bad enough that since The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Breaking Bad we could no longer mock American television. Now they do satire better than us too. h/t Smalldeadanimals
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Continue reading →: The Groucho Marx test for politicians
BBC News – Huhne: Speeding story was 'payback' for criticism of Murdoch press. Chris Huhne demonstrates once again that anyone who wants to join the Westminster Club is not fit to be a member. Note the Huhne-centric view of the Universe here. Note the astonishing sense of self-importance. He committed a…
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Continue reading →: ‘Never go through life saying you should have’
This is what we have lost in Britain; I fear forever. The Welfare State has convinced many of us that we are not the answer to each other's problems. Yet in America, as I saw in Moore OK on my recent tour, the first instinctive reaction to a crisis…
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Continue reading →: Thought-crime in Britain
BBC News – The hidden epidemic of hate crime When I was asked, a year after my return to Britain, what was the biggest change I had noticed, I answered that the police now seem more interested in what you say than what you do. The notion of freedom of…
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Continue reading →: Back in the charts
I don't go in much for statporn here. Goodness knows it would be unstimulating stuff compared to the big boys at the top of the blog charts. I dropped out of the ebuzzing blog charts during my American trip because – presumably – my happy burblings didn't trigger comments, links,…
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Continue reading →: True to their vicious type
politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Can Ed win support for state funding of political parties?. Once again politicians are floating the idea of more state funding for their conspiracies parties. There is a reason political parties are losing members. They do no appeal to ordinary voters, but only to fanatics…
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Continue reading →: Inside the mind of a statist?
I grew up listening to Radio 4 and still, from habit, turn it on in the morning. The constant diet of Fabian filth usually irritates me into turning it off within minutes but not this morning. There was a bland piece by what sounded like (but wasn't) some breathless intern desperate…
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Continue reading →: My new blogroll
Google Reader is no more so I need another way to provide links to the blogs I regularly read. I now use Feed.ly as my RSS reader, but it has no capacity to share feeds. Therefore I have decided to use del.icio.us for that purpose. You will find a link in the sidebar to my…
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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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