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Continue reading →: Winning friends and influencing people; the EU way
The Freedom Association and Better Off Out have just published their snappily-titled annual "Balance of Competences Review", which looks at the EU's effect on the UK's place in the world. This link will take you to your very own free copy for download. Even if you are already sceptical of the benefits…
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Continue reading →: Guest post – ‘Ministry of Defence can’t tell the time. Good grief!’
I have been reading the Spectator this morning, and in their Portrait of the Week found this gem: Despite a ban on ringing the speaking clock, Ministry of Defence staff spent £18,804 of its money last year dialling 123 to check the time. I don't know where to begin. Out…
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Continue reading →: The Prime Minister should now resign
BBC News – David Cameron loses Commons vote on Syria action. Not because he is wrong (though he is) but because he is incompetent. He has embarrassed the nation by stupidly offering military support to our best ally that he should have known he could not deliver. He should have…
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Continue reading →: One, two, three, what are we fighting for?
I am not a pacifist. There is such a thing as legitimate self-defence. However we are not currently threatened in any serious way by anyone in Syria. Quite the contrary, as Perry de Havilland explains over at Samizdata; Some people want to intervene in Syria to stop Al Qaeda backed…
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Continue reading →: More enforcement, not more laws
Sean Linnane: NRA NEWS: BACKGROUND CHECKS. There is a proposal in the United States to extend background checks so that everyone selling a gun – not just a licensed dealer as at present – must first check out their buyer. It sounds innocuous, yes? Who could possibly disapprove? After all,…
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Continue reading →: Research links children’s psychological problems to prolonged screen time. Oh yeah?
Research links children’s psychological problems to prolonged screen time | Society | The Guardian. Busybodies always seem to assume that, if forbidden to do the things they don’t like, you will do the things they favour. As that’s an obvious fallacy they will move from ban to ban until everything…
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Continue reading →: In what mad world?
BBC News – Real IRA man’s family to be compensated. I do not agree with the basic idea behind the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. Compensation is a private, civil matter. The only crossover should be that the guilty verdict in the criminal court is accepted by the civil judge, so…
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Continue reading →: A revenue problem or a spending problem?
I know that most of my readers are in Britain and am aware that your comments are fewer when I post about other places. Where, however, would I find a funded-by-extortion British professor uttering such words as: No matter how robustly our tax revenues grow, government always finds a way…
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Continue reading →: The state’s puppy dog
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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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