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Continue reading →: Quotes of the day, from the extremes of modesty and arrogance
I am no sports buff and find cycling – quite literally – a pain in the proverbial, but it's hard not to like our Wiggo. His down to earth modesty is affecting and what spin doctor could better his wife's answer to a journo's question about family sacrifices made for…
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Continue reading →: How to deal with Twits
Let Twitter twits stew in their own juice | John Kampfner | Comment is free | The Guardian. John Kampfner's linked article refers to trolls as "the green ink brigade." This made me smile. Before there was a 'net people used to communicate (sometimes maliciously) by analogue means. There were…
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Continue reading →: That way, madness lies
It is such a cliché to tell a policeman engaged on trivia that he should be catching burglars that – though we all think it – only the least educated of us now say it out loud. Yet what else, really, is one to say to the Dorset Police? They…
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Continue reading →: Love the show, troubled by the message
I watched the Olympic Opening Ceremony from start to finish on French channel TF1. It's fair to say that much of it bemused the French commentators, but reading around this morning I see that – as the BBC used sports commentators for a cultural event – it was just as…
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Continue reading →: Drivers to have 10-year health checks
Drivers to have 10-year health checks under driver licence reforms – Telegraph. I have absolutely no desire to survive my driving licence. Life without driving a car is unthinkable to me. It's bad enough that the government claims the right to decide who may operate this particular type of machine…
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Continue reading →: Blogger on his hols
I am not sure it means a break in blogging but my sojourn on the beautiful island of Mauritius may well change the tone of my posts. My only worry right now, truly a first world problem, is as to whether my friends’ French satellite TV package includes a channel…
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Continue reading →: Another ethical dilemma. Maybe I am just confused?
'Circumcision ban makes Ger… JPost – Jewish World – Jewish News. I am troubled by the German court decision on circumcision (and relieved that the Bundestag is apparently going to over-rule it). Yet I don't really understand why? My libertarian principles certainly don't allow parents a free hand to mutilate…
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Continue reading →: Is LOCOG restricting free speech?
Terms of use 2012 Olympics | London 2012. There is some kerfuffle about the London Organising Committee of the Olympic games restricting free speech by its linking policy. Some are asking how, by linking to the site, you could be said to be using it. Therefore they argue, even by…
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Continue reading →: Is Suzanne Moore’s thought maturing?
On social media the new religion is sharing. Some of that sharing may not be very nice | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian. Ms Moore is one of my least favourite writers. She is of the militant busybody tendency. To put it politely (and I don't…
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Continue reading →: Is the internet as addictive as tobacco?
Is the internet as addictive as tobacco? | Anonymous | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Here we go. First tobacco. Then drink. Then food. Now the internet. There are literally no decisions about our own lives the true Guardianisti think we are adult enough to take. In their patronising world…
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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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