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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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Continue reading →: Where I stand on the US political spectrum
As ever please click on the images to enlarge them and, though the Pew Research Center is a serious body, take the results of all such pop quizzes with a pinch of the proverbial condiment. You can find the quiz here, if you want to try it yourself. I guess…
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Continue reading →: Hysteria. His or ours?
How do we escape the hysteria that threatens to erode public debate? | Peter Beaumont | Comment is free | The Observer. The linked article by Peter Beaumont cheered me up immensely. If the control-freaks of the left-wing press, so intent on setting every possible parameter of public debate, fear…
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Continue reading →: Now I have only one hero left
I was much moved by Neil Armstrong's family's dignified statement on his death. Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. Neil Armstrong was also a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job. He served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot,…
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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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