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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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Continue reading →: There are two ways of looking at this
Cowardly Bullying on the Web – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – Dale & Co. Am I alone in believing that, such are the appallingly illiberal beliefs (in the classical, correct sense of the word 'liberal') of Ms Alibhai-Brown, she would be subjected to far greater abuse on the internet were she not…
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Continue reading →: Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
Today I finished reading Walter Isaacson's excellent biography of Steve Jobs. As a long-time Apple user, I was vaguely aware of most of the key facts of Jobs' life, but Isaacson has pulled it all together and filled it out with data from 40 interviews with the man himself and…
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Continue reading →: The Best Bet Is Freedom
The Best Bet Is Freedom | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty. Jason Riddle, over at the Foundation for Economic Freedom's site, compares politics with casino gambling and concludes convincingly that the latter is a better bet. There is no such thing as a magical public fund from which political…
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Continue reading →: Real art vs the other stuff
Strictly For The Birds… | Orphans of Liberty. I recently asked why The Guardian was not more supportive of the reputation of William Shakespeare, our greatest native genius. JuliaM has hit upon the answer over at the gloomily-named GroupBlog, Orphans of Liberty. Real art, in Guardian Land, is stuff no-one wants…
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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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