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Continue reading →: We are not there yet, alas
It's sad to watch America take the path to perdition trodden by Britain since 1946. Money for nothing is a myth. There is always a price to pay. Britain has certainly paid a price in moral decay, as more and more of our people take no responsibility for the welfare…
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Continue reading →: Nationalism is nasty stuff
BBC News – Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals. I hate the petty nationalisms of my home islands. It's why, though as Welsh as the next man if I choose, I prefer to call myself English. Hating the English is not an ideology; still less an honourable…
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Continue reading →: A glorious example of rule by fuckwits
A glorious example of rule by fuckwits. Like he said. It leads one to muse optimistically; is there coded into the software of the Universe some redeeming rule that the competence of a state varies inversely with its size? In which case, might Tim’s jocular cry to “hang them all” not…
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Continue reading →: I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Gentle readers, I know I have been quiet of late. This month I purchased a new home in London and brought all my worldly goods together there for the first time in 20 years. I have sold the home in Cheshire to which 'Mrs Paine' and I had planned to…
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Continue reading →: So we were right about this too?
EU-sceptics who predicted the failure of the single currency have been feeling pretty smug for a while. Now, those who have long complained that our political class was being bribed into support for the EU can also start telling their EU-mug friends "I told you so". According to today's FT:…
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Continue reading →: Informed Democracy?
Nobody Important: Democrasy. Is it working?. Our regular commenter Moggsy is a blogger herself, posting at our mutual friend JMB's site, Nobody Important. Today she considers the problems of democracy. She proposes, controversially, that the votes of different categories of voters should carry different weights. Even more controversially, she suggests…
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Continue reading →: Maybe we still need a bigger navy than Belgium?
Argentina launches naval campaign to isolate Falkland Islands – Telegraph. The three state services libertarians all support are defence of the realm, policing and provision of an independent judiciary. That's one of the things that differentiates us from anarchists. The irony is that modern governments have focussed so hard on…
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Continue reading →: Don’t treat us as “congenital idiots”, Mr Cameron. Unless, of course, we are.
"Downing Street said yesterday that a referendum is unnecessary. It is, at the very least, an odd negotiating strategy for Mr Cameron to throw away the strongest card in his hand before the game has even started." – Telegraph leader via conservativehome.blogs.com The press are calling on Cameron not to…
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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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