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Continue reading →: The pillow fight of ideas
I am spending this weekend at the Battle of Ideas at the Barbican. It got off to a bad start for me with a session on equality that was more like the deep graveyard peace of a single idea than a battle. Four leftists set out possible views of equality,…
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Continue reading →: One Europe for all, including murderers
You thought the whole 'EUSSR' thing was over the top? Have a look at this poster – Telegraph Blogs. Europeans should be every bit as shocked to see the hammer and sickle on the above EU propaganda as they would be to see the swastika. Tellingly, their leaders don't think…
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Continue reading →: A chart that needs no comment
h/t Professor Mark J. Perry at the American Enterprise Institute blog
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Continue reading →: Learning to love public servants
Should Romney Seek the Public Sector Vote? — The American Magazine. This is one of the more interesting posts I have read on the US elections and I wonder how similar the statistics would be in the UK. Libertarians and small state conservatives tend to generalise about public servants in…
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Continue reading →: This is the dawning of the Age of Mockery, apparently.
Muslims protest ‘age of mockery’ as thousands descend on Google HQ – Telegraph. I applaud the stance of Google and its subsidiary YouTube in response to the demands of the mob outside their offices in London yesterday. I worry that their stance might be less tough if they were headquartered…
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Continue reading →: Wrong on every level?
Stumbling and Mumbling: In defence of idleness. Is our bias in favour of industry and thrift out-dated? Do we need to adapt to a new paradigm? Chris Dillow of the blog Stumbling and Mumbling, who bills himself as "an extremist, not a fanatic", believes so. He even arranges English words…
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Continue reading →: The four ways of spending money
I keep mentioning them here, so I thought I should post the video.
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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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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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