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Continue reading →: Even the prospect of power corrupts
How No 10 warned off the Telegraph – Telegraph So there's no threat to freedom of the press, eh? If even the "good guys" who claim to be worried about Leveson's recommendations reach for them as a weapon when threatened with exposure of alleged expenses fraud, imagine how the enthusiasts…
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Continue reading →: Le vice Britannique
I have been taken to task by readers here for over-generalising in my last post in which I referred to; …the depths of ignorance, prejudice and hate-addled envy that now characterise most of the British people… I would love to agree with my critics but the only places I encounter…
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Continue reading →: These are entirely useless idiots – unless you are a politician
Britain could end these tax scams by hitting the big four | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian. Ignore Polly. She's just writing her usual hypocritical twaddle. Read the comments. They would be hilarious if they did not so clearly reveal the depths of ignorance, prejudice and…
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Continue reading →: Political priorities
Gay marriage or economic Armageddon: which do you think matters more? – Telegraph Blogs. Mr Delingpole has a point, but I am surprised he is surprised. Isn't fiddling while the city burns the classical recreation for political arsonists? One of the best practical arguments for libertarianism is that, given fewer…
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Continue reading →: Harman threatens Guido, as predicted here
See my Leery about Leveson post. They ARE after the big bloggers, whatever they may say. H/T her target.
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Continue reading →: Another way of looking at the tax avoidance fuss
Patently Rubbish: An interesting conversation. Patently makes some good points, as usual, but most striking is this question; Let's rephrase this, shall we: No-one in the UK managed to set up a Starbucks, a Google, or an Amazon The UK has an attitude which is distinctly unfriendly towards entrepreneurs,…
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Continue reading →: How Government controls the British broadcast media
British television – a brief potted history. | Samizdata.net Please follow the link for an excellent history of British television. I confess that I did not know until I read it that all British TV is state controlled, not just the BBC. Amid all the fuss about regulation of the…
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Continue reading →: The scientific application of state force
How one family were brought to their knees by the taxman – Telegraph. This appalling story gives the lie to those who claim the British state is not funded by force – that there is, in effect, some "social contract" by which we all agree to be taxed. As regular…
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Continue reading →: Leery about Leveson
It's too soon to react properly to the Leveson Report, as has been graphically illustrated by the meanderings of people trying to do so on TV in the past hour. Two thousand pages of judicial prose are hard to digest. He has played a canny political game. By declaring he will…
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Continue reading →: The Free Society: Punishing the poor, the moderate and the sensible
The Free Society: Punishing the poor, the moderate and the sensible. Over at the Free Society blog, economist Eamonn Butler states what used to be the bleeding obvious before welfarism rotted the national brain. As to his immediate point, he is quite right that the only people whose behaviour will…
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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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