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Continue reading →: US Tour souvenirs
I am hoping to meet several of my American, and a couple of my Canadian✱, readers in the course of my upcoming tour of the Lower 48. As coffee shops and diners are the most likely venues, I thought a commemorative coffee mug might be in order. The prototype worked…
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Continue reading →: The Great River Road
My route planning for US Tour 2013 has reached New Orleans. I plan to get there by following the Mississipi River from its source in Minnesota to the sea. The route is known as "the Great River Road" and involves a lot of by-ways. It should help me engage with "the…
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Continue reading →: Dog bites man
Dave Denies Debt Truth – Guy Fawkes' blog. Old fashioned conservatives continue to be disappointed with Dodgy Dave Cameron; the ethics-free Etonian. Guido has said what needs to be said in the linked post but every blog in Britain should re-post the graph he sourced from the Office of National…
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Continue reading →: Can a libertarian be a Socialist?
My only grave objections to socialism are the force involved in establishing it and the (usually far greater) force involved in maintaining it. If all the Socialists in Britain want to pool their assets and share their joint earnings equally in a sort of virtual commune, that's absolutely fine by…
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Continue reading →: Boycott the Marxist roaders!
Can I just say that I will never buy from any store displaying this smug, stupid sign? It is an attempt to befriend the cretinous anti-capitalists who are attacking businesses who have so structured their affairs as lawfully to minimise their taxes. The cretins are attacking not merely capitalism but…
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Continue reading →: For this, she pays council tax. There really is no escape from the British state
h/t NickM at Counting Cats in Zanzibar
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Continue reading →: Can a libertarian be socially conservative?
The controversy about Suzanne Moore's "Brazilian transsexual" article is typical of much civil (and uncivil) discourse in Britain today. I have little to add to that discussion directly, but it set me thinking about the wider problems of tolerance in Britain and the way our political system now works. It's…
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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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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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