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Continue reading →: The feeding frenzy continues
How I misread News Corp’s taxes | MediaFile. When you run a media business you make enemies. Not least the friends who believe they were insufficiently favoured. Rupert Murdoch's, especially those with axes to grind, love his current discomfiture. Especially the BBC, a state corporation* with a near-monopoly on electoral…
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Continue reading →: The answer to a question they will never ask us: ‘Do you want Britain to leave the EU?’
Second Poll Shows UK Wants Out of EU – Guy Fawkes' blog. Yes.
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Continue reading →: Answers to easy questions: ‘Do they really want us to have more power, and do we want it?’
Do they really want us to have more power, and do we want it? – Telegraph. No. Yes.
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Continue reading →: I despair
The posh left is triumphant. The people are bamboozled once more by their own sentimentality. A co-ordinated and well-timed plan of attack (judging by the steadiness of the daily leaks) is succeeding. No-one sees the elephant in the room (the bloated, biased and soon-to-be-even-less-challenged state broadcaster). When people talk of…
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Continue reading →: Grammatical incrimination
Dear diary: thief makes record of armed robbery – Telegraph. Please notice how the idiot wrote it: Robbery happens. All my criminal clients spoke this way when I was briefly a defence lawyer, many moons since: I was doing so well staying out of trouble, Mr Paine, and then this…
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Continue reading →: Book review: Single Acts of Tyranny, by Stuart Fairney
Single Acts of Tyranny: Amazon.co.uk: Stuart Fairney: Books. I come late to this party. Leg-iron, The Nameless Libertarian, Neil Craig, Anna Raccoon, NickM and The Englishman have already reviewed this book and left little enough for your humble blogger to add. To be honest, I put off reading it for…
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Continue reading →: Babies and bathwater
Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph London editor – Telegraph. I am concerned by the current threat to our free press and glad that the question is being raised in the mainstream media. I am not surprised Andrew Gilligan is prominent among the warning voices. As he points out in the Daily Telegraph;…
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Continue reading →: Government knows best?
News International's share price is falling. But so is that of BSkyB, its acquisition target. The market says – in effect – that the takeover adds value; that BSkyB is better fully owned by Murdoch. That the politicians are about to exact vengeance for years of having to crawl to…
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Continue reading →: Stony Stratford protest update
Stub Out The Stony Stratford Smoking Ban. The local media have taken an interest and to suit their deadlines (and enhance the publicity) Dick has brought the start time forward to 11am. Please do your best to be there and use your social media accounts to publicise the event.
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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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
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