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Continue reading →: The British welfare state has created more invalids than the Great War
The video is a little ropey but please persist and view the whole thing. As ever, Dr Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple) is both interesting and darkly amusing. He reports that, under a threat of violence (50% of doctors have been assaulted in the last 12 months) most general…
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Continue reading →: US Tour 2013
My US Road Trip began in New Jersey on April 29 2013 and ended back there on Sunday June 23. Clicking this link will show you an online map of my tour and my photos and updates from the road. My planned itinerary is in MapQuest. My temporary US number for the tour…
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Continue reading →: India: Bull or Bear?
India has a lot going for it. Unlike Britain, where our intellectuals mostly deserve our anti-intellectualism, its population is divided between those who are highly educated and those who are not but devoutly hope their children will be. It is the world's largest democracy, speaks the international lingua franca of…
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Continue reading →: US Tour Dates 2013
I am pleased to announce a big project for this blog in 2013. I shall be shipping Speranza (pictured) to the USA and embarking on an epic tour of 48 states. I will be in NYC from 25-28th April taking part in a National Geographic photography course to hone my…
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Continue reading →: Disgusting lawyers
Indian gang rape: suspects charged with rape and murder – Telegraph. The rape and murder of a 23 year old student in India is a hard case that risks making a lot of bad law. Particularly in a society where the legal profession has lost its ethical way. I could…
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Continue reading →: 2013 is Going to be the Best Year in Human History
A Very British Dude: 2013 is Going to be the Best Year in Human History. Well said that dude.
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Continue reading →: Doctors out of their boxes
Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: The dictatorship of public health. I am not quite sure how I missed the linked article back in September but I am glad I found it via Chris Snowdon's review of the year at his excellent blog, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. The authoritarians of the medical establishment…
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Continue reading →: Please tell me the Left is right…
LISTEN: Jobless Man Who Won't Get Up At 8am | LBC …in condemning this caller to LBC radio as a Tory plant. That would be far less depressing than it being real as it would suggest there is some guttering flame of entrepreneurship, initiative and political killer instinct in what…
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Continue reading →: The difference between communism and socialism
As I lived in Poland for eleven years, I sometimes get stuff like this from my friends there. The son asks his father the difference between Communists and Socialists. The father replies "Communists shoot you in the head immediately; Socialists torment you your whole life." Hard-earned wisdom from a country…
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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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