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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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Continue reading →: The redemptive power of labour
What I Learned in the Poverty War by Peter Cove, City Journal Autumn 2012 The linked article is one of the most encouraging I have read for a while. It describes the experience of a former member of the "welfare industrial complex" (the author's splendid coinage) who founded a private…
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Continue reading →: Spending isn’t good; what’s good is producing
“Pure fallacy from beginning to end” at Catallaxy Files. In this video, Milton Friedman deals with the left’s eternal favourite, the broken window fallacy. When I was a student politician, there was a Trot called Andy on the NUS executive. After every conference motion, he screwed up the papers…
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Continue reading →: What chance to our children have of hearing these arguments?
Follow-Up Letter to a Very Bright 11th-Grader American state school teachers may, for all I know, be as consistently left-wing as ours. One needs no conspiracy theory to account for it. People who choose careers financed by force either have no scruples about it when they sign up, or soon learn…
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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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