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Continue reading →: Worstall on economics
Well of course. I have nothing to add to Tim's wisdom and commend the linked post to you. Economics … has nothing at all to say about whether more or less inequality is a good thing to be striving for. Nada on whether greater physical wealth is better or worse…
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Continue reading →: Is this why they don’t want Murdoch to run Sky?
This is not a point of view you are likely to see put across on the BBC or Channel 4 any time soon. You can see and hear it all the time on News Corporation's Fox News network in the USA. Balanced budgets, sound money, economic progress by hard…
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Continue reading →: There is no justice
Devine Off Scot-Free – Guy Fawkes' blog. Four months served out of an already-derisory sentence of sixteen months. Four months for betraying our trust and stealing our money. Their contempt for us clearly knows no bounds.
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Continue reading →: What the USA’s liabilities look like in $100 bills
US debt problem visualized: Debt stacked in 100 dollar bills. We really can't have enough visualisations like the one on the linked page. Honestly, I don't believe the idiot politicians have their heads around the scale of what they have done. And still they want their overdraft limit (i.e. their…
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Continue reading →: The truth on the BBC
BBC News – Today – Europe 'living in fantasy' over crisis. The tone of the interviewer's voice as Terry Smith of Tullett Prebon tells her (among other home truths) that there have been no cuts and that the public sector must shrink dramatically is music to my ears. Something tells…
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Continue reading →: Dear old Auntie Beeb and her funny little ways
In Praise of the BBC's Political Coverage – Robert Smith – Dale & Co.. [The linked article is a rather implausible defence of the BBC's political independence. Having written a long comment on it, I thought I would cross-post it here]. Come off it! There is no justification for having…
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Continue reading →: Simon Jenkins speaks sooth
The last thing Norway needs is illiberal Britain's patronising | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian. Please read it all. I have nothing to add, save my admiration for the calm reaction of the Norwegian government.
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Continue reading →: Be afraid
It's Christmas for the left-liberal consensus. They are still in their glee from the undoubted success of their suspiciously Campbell-esque campaign against News International. They are still earnestly blabbering over state-dominated airwaves, without a hint of irony, about the supposed 'dominance' of a private company struggling to compete with the…
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Continue reading →: So much for that
Stony Stratford Meeting Overwhelmingly Rejects Bartlett Proposals | Dick Puddlecote. If libertarians were like socialists, they would all be claiming credit for the decision of Stony Stratford Town Council. Dick Puddlecote, the leader of the #stonystandoff campaign shows the way however in congratulating the residents of Stony Stratford. After all,…
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Continue reading →: Success at Stony Stratford!
Our boy done good. More than 100 souls showed up to express their contempt for Cllr Bartlett, including Dave Atherton, Witterings from Witney, Misanthrope Girl, The Boiling Frog, Fuel Injected Moose, Lid on a Scream, Anonymong, Christopher Snowdon, Nigel Farage, Bill Etheridge, Patrick Hayes, David Odell and Roger Helmer. Bill…
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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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