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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
You can see more of Adams's work at the Telegraph's paywalled site (click to enlarge).
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Continue reading →: Barackading the Manning
Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison – live updates | World news | theguardian.com. The Guardian suddenly seems to be my newspaper. Soon I will have to take back all those Guardian reader and Guardianista jibes over the years. Or perhaps not. At the moment it's doing a…
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Continue reading →: In which I praise a Guardian journalist
So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian. The Guardianisti are the very people most likely to say that the innocent have nothing to fear. They are the very people most likely…
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Continue reading →: My enemy’s enemy is my friend – at least for now
BBC News – David Miranda 'feels invaded' after password disclosure. For once, civil libertarians in Britain have had a spot of luck. Can you imagine what the coverage of this incident would be like if News International journalists were involved? Or if data had been seized in this outrageous manner…
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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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