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Continue reading →: A Conservative Woman’s Manifesto
A Conservative Woman’s Manifesto. I feel the need to share the linked post with you. It is dignified, funny and true. It is amusing that it should end up on one of President Obama's campaign websites in response to the usual leftist nastiness about their opponents. I wonder how long…
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Continue reading →: Socialism’s popularity – not quite explained
The Commentator. I am conscious that I have yet to make good on my promise to explain the continued political success of Socialism, despite its core ideas having been so thoroughly and bloodily discredited. Every time I try to write the promised post, something easier comes up to distract me.…
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Continue reading →: Shrewsbury pickets seek to edit history the Hobsbawn way
BBC News – Shrewsbury 24 pickets' plea over 1973 convictions. I thank the reader who drew this story to my attention. Some of you may recall I have personal experience of the conduct of the Shrewsbury Pickets and blogged about it here. Coincidentally, I was driving a member of my…
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Continue reading →: Protect your Freedom – Please retweet and respond!
Protect your Freedom – Please retweet and respond! — Anna Raccoon. I refer my gentle readers to Anna's linked post today. It is important. The state is seeking extended powers to interfere in personal relationships between citizens with legal capacity to make their own decisions. Telling social workers to "get…
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Continue reading →: The love that dare not speak its name
The Commentator – 50 shades of black In the linked article, former Ambassador Charles Crawford writes these damning words of the Guardianistis' late darling Hobsbawn; The Labour Party loved him. This is no smear. The leader of that party spoke warmly of him as a family friend and good man.…
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Continue reading →: An evil influence
Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 | Books | guardian.co.uk. When friends doubted my assertion that Britain's establishment is more Marxist than Russia's ever was, Hobsbawn was always the name I mentioned. If you were educated in a British school or read history at a British university, you have almost certainly…
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Continue reading →: A Nation of Addicts
A Nation of Addicts — Anna Raccoon. I wish I had written this. It says all I want to say today. Do click through and read it please.
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Continue reading →: Fighting zombies
When the Wall fell most of us thought that, even if history had not ended, Socialism was dead. Those of us who went to the East to build on the ruins wrought by decades of it little thought it still had legs. Its central thesis – that centralised economic planning…
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Continue reading →: Why do Progressives fear Progress?
Social networking is threatening the open public network | Media network | Guardian Professional. When anyone writing for The Guardian identifies a conflict between "public" and "corporate" interests, watch out. That's always a small screw that they want to drive home with the pile-driver known as the state. If Facebook…
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Continue reading →: Why I still love America
Can you imagine a speech of this power delivered with such sincerity by a British politician? They are a seedy, cynical bunch, but Ms Rice (though a practical and effective politician) speaks from the heart. I know no other argument for the Romney candidacy than that she endorses it, but…
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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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