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Continue reading →: What kind of country?
Vincent Cooke's plea for family to flee before 'stabbing burglar Raymond Jacob 6 times' | Mail Online. Time will tell if justice will prevail for Vincent Cooke. I hope so. He resisted a forced entry to his home; protecting his family as best he could. We all hope we would…
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Continue reading →: More lost data
NHS loses CD of 1.6 MILLION patients' records • The Register. The state is not your friend and, if it were, it would be the stupidest one you have. I love the expression "…the trust was handed an undertaking…", don't you? It's an unusual construction meaning – I think –…
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Continue reading →: Thank you
Top 40 Libertarian blogs | Total Politics. Thank you very much to all of you who voted for me in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011. Given how subdued my blogging has been in the past year, I am pleasantly surprised to have a place in the rankings at all…
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Continue reading →: A break from blogging
Mrs P's funeral was yesterday. The service was moving and beautiful. The Misses P made me proud by the readings they delivered over their mother's coffin and by their loving support, amid their own terrible grief, for their distraught father. As I watched their family and their young friends rally…
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Continue reading →: ‘Mrs Paine’ – 1956-2011
My beloved 'Mrs P.' has passed away. She died peacefully in the early hours of this morning. I was at her bedside, holding her hand and telling her for the last time in this life how much she is loved. I cannot thank enough the staff at the Cromwell Hospital…
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Continue reading →: See how the state defends you
London Riots: Shop-owners defend their businesses in east London – video | UK news | guardian.co.uk. So far, the only 'community' to emerge with credit from the London riots is that of the Turkish shopowners who banded together to defend their businesses from the thieving mob. Despite the weaselly attempts…
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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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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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