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Continue reading →: Get out of our heads
The Soviets became more clever towards the end of their rule. Rather than continue to have show trials and make the rivers red with the blood of class enemies, they started to lock them up as psychiatric cases. Doctors "took care" of them, rather than executioners and jailers making class…
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Continue reading →: A Right to Die? Or a right to be killed?
A Right to Die? The Tony Nicklinson case. I have written twice before about my ethical problems with "assisted suicide." Of course I sympathise with such people as Tony Nicklinson. I would hate to be in his position and would probably feel the same way if I were. However, hard…
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Continue reading →: Happy Fourth of July
Friendly greetings to all American friends of non-totalitarian persuasions. Have a great Fourth guys. Totalitarian Americans won't want to celebrate today anyway. Because for all their current problems and despite the current leadership of their federal government, the United States are still – at heart – the home of the…
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Continue reading →: Of butterflies, wheels and the dangers of feeble jokes
Twitter joke trial – timeline | Law | guardian.co.uk. The Guardian sets out a helpful timeline of the Paul Chambers Twitter joke fiasco; the emblematic story of a butterfly being broken on a wheel by the pompous, humourless and insufferable henchmen and thugs of the British state. Read it and…
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Continue reading →: Stefan Molyneux debates the role of the state
This is a long discussion, but I found it fascinating. Not, you understand, that it produces any answers. It is hard to persuade people who are only familiar with living under a powerful state that there is a better alternative. They simply can't imagine it and begin to be…
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Continue reading →: Classical liberalism – Part 7. Concluding thoughts
This brings the series of LearnLiberty.org videos that I have posted here to an end, with some closing thoughts from Dr. Ashford about the role of government and some definitions of political categories. I hope you have enjoyed the series. So which school do you belong to? Which of the…
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Continue reading →: A dialogue of the deaf (and dumb)
A woman was in full niqab at my local Tube station today. That I respect her right to dress as she likes, is for most libertarians all that there is to say on that subject. In truth, of course, there is much more. A wise friend of mine said recently…
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Continue reading →: Factual Free-Market Fairness
Factual Free-Market Fairness | Bleeding Heart Libertarians. I am on the road today, visiting the old haunts of the original and best Tom Paine. I am unlikely to post anything substantial, so I merely recommend you to the linked article described by Cafe Hayek as "The greatest blog post ever…
THE LAST DITCH
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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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There are many reasons they’re not passed down, Tom. The Triune code, laid out in scripture in all reputable versions…
I’ve always tried to live my life doing no wrong but life isn’t like that so you make compromised but…
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A little bird tweeted in my ear that it was time to come over and see how things are.