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Continue reading →: A dangerous day
Today is a dangerous day for freedom. Lord Leveson's report has been read overnight by the politicians and civil servants and will be revealed to us this afternoon. All we know is that it's 2,000 pages long and composed by, and under the advice, of people who trust the state…
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Continue reading →: More children should be in care, say MPs
BBC News – More children should be in care, say MPs Where do the men and women responsible for the institutional child abuse that is state "care" for children get their arrogance? Even leaving aside the extreme examples of the North Wales childrens homes or those in Islington under Margaret…
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Continue reading →: Just what is the point of the Conservative Party?
I know many of my liberty-minded friends have little time for Liberty (fka the National Council for Civil Liberties). At times in its history it has been little better than a leftist front falsely associating highly illiberal people with the idea of freedom. Sometimes, however, it gets it right and…
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Continue reading →: Thank you, Dr. Ron Paul
Few men have done their fellow countrymen greater service than Dr. Ron Paul. In making his farewell speech to Congress, he articulated his vision and expressed his hope that, despite all his worst predictions having come true, the next generation will rebuild America. Apart from his repeating the common…
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Continue reading →: I, Pencil
I, Pencil | A Project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Anyone who thinks politicians can ever make things better should consider this; everything they do obstructs the beautiful process illustrated in this movie. A process that is breathtakingly complex, even in relation to one of mankind's "simplest" products. So…
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Continue reading →: And when they are not immoral, they are incompetent
This is a direct quote from a note sent today to all the students on a post-graduate course at a particular English university. It is from the programme director of the course, who teaches English. Can I also empaphise the imporatnce of arriving at lectures and seminars so that you…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes, Auntie, “sorry” doesn’t cut it
BBC News – BBC apologises for Newsnight child abuse report. Has there ever been a better demonstration of the BBC's political bias than this story of sexual abuse in North Wales children's homes? It happened, years ago, in a solid Labour area. I grew up there. I was standing at…
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Continue reading →: America’s debt is greater than all the money in the world.
Still not enough, say America’s voters. Sigh.
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Continue reading →: Just to get this election in perspective…
Here is H.L. Mencken speaking of politicians in general; The one aim of all such persons is to butter their own parsnips. They have no concept of the public good that can be differentiated from their concept of their own good. They get into office by making all sorts of…
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Continue reading →: When will they ever learn?
AUFERSTANDEN AUS RUINEN | Socialist Unity. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the great political event of my life. Though I wore a "free elections in the East" badge at National Union of Students conferences, it was something I never really dared to hope for. I remember either Edward…
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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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