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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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Continue reading →: Whose life is it anyway?
YOUR Property, You Say? Think Again | Dick Puddlecote. Watching Mr Clegg yesterday (and the editorialising about his comments on the BBC News) made me cry out in anger for the first time in months. Not because politicians have been behaving themselves, but because my life experiences had put their…
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Continue reading →: When will we ever learn?
Shakedown Socialism: a book by Oleg Atbashian. I am currently reading this excellent book by Oleg Atbashian of the wonderful blog called The People's Cube. It resonates with me because, during my 19 years in post-communist Eastern Europe, I met many people like him who, as he puts it, …believed,…
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Continue reading →: The James Garfield Christmas (And Hanukah) Miracle Returns. Sort of. — TheBloggess.com
The James Garfield Christmas (And Hanukah) Miracle Returns. Sort of. — TheBloggess.com. One of the most amusing voices on the internet is that of The Bloggess. She is the antidote to gloomy bloggers like me. She makes me the gift of a smile almost every day and some days…
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Continue reading →: Keep it up, brothers and sisters
BBC News – Public sector strike rallies held across UK. Did the strikes affect you? Me neither. I would be delighted if the strikers would really go for it; all out, indefinitely. At least that way, there might finally be some reductions in public spending. Because, without the unintentional assistance…
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Continue reading →: Murderous logic
Ambush Predator: The Paper Says ‘Drama’, I Say ‘Attempted Murder’…. JuliaM posts about so many of these stories that it's impressive she can maintain her outrage. Sadly the problem is more profound than a few misguided judges or social workers. In current political thinking, these are not miscarriages of justice…
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Continue reading →: The Peoples’ Cube
Let's teach "Occupy WSJ" some strong communism! I recommend this satirical site, which features wonderful graphics by Oleg Atbashian, a former propaganda artist in the USSR who created agitprop for the Party committee in a Siberian town. He is a man who 'saw the worst of both worlds and lived 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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