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Continue reading →: Say it ain’t so
Britons more likely to support a party committed to public ownership | Liberal Conspiracy. Given that the poll was commissioned by a socialist campaign group for more state gangsterism, let's not get too gloomy too fast. It's amazing how consistently polls commissioned by people who believe X tend to find…
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Continue reading →: Faces of fear amuse the Guardianisti
Faces of fear at Canadian 'haunted house' – in pictures | World news | theguardian.com. What does it tell us that the no-state-too-big, no-tax-too-high totalitarians over at The Guardian find ordinary people looking terrified 'oddly hilarious?' There will clearly be no problem manning the gulags when their political dreams are…
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Continue reading →: I wish I had said that…
Spare Me – and Walter Williams – Your Self-Serving and Insulting Sermonizing …because I have often thought it. I respect ordinary thieves much more than I respect politicians. Ordinary thieves take my money without pretense. Unlike typical politicians, these thieves don’t bore me with silly explanations of why their thievery…
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Continue reading →: What libertarianism isn’t
H.L. Mencken said that "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." The human tendency to fall for such answers probably accounts for most religions and political ideologies. We can't accept that, while it's noble and fine to seek answers, they are almost certainly…
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Continue reading →: Snouts in the snout-shaped trough again
The new MPs’ Expenses Scandal | Trending Central. Both the law firms where I was a partner had anti-nepotism policies. We couldn't employ our own or each other's relatives. If we married someone from the firm, one of us had to leave. Why? I am sure it was often the…
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Continue reading →: The critical importance of football chants
BBC Sport – FA threat to fans over anti-Semitic term in chants. Apparently it’s a criminal offence in this country for football fans to call themselves ‘yids’. Personally, I think the way Jewish and Gentile Spurs fans have together handled anti-semitic abuse by using and ‘owning’ the word ‘yid’ in…
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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
THE LAST DITCH
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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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