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Continue reading →: Public/Private wage gap ‘widens’
Public sector workers paid 7.8pc more than private sector as wage gap 'widens' – Telegraph. Although economic illiterates keep telling us that "public sector workers are taxpayers too" those 'taxes' are purely cosmetic. In fact they are worse than that. The bureaucracy wastes a hefty chunk of the 'tax' in…
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Continue reading →: The old age of Prudence
Surely one key motivation to work and save your whole life is to remain independent? Why then do Conservatives habitually bemoan the fact that those with assets are required to use them (if their cash is insufficient) to take care of themselves when elderly? Why are they so envious of…
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Continue reading →: An invitation
Click the image to enlarge. h/t Navigator, who tells me it's from the Daily Mash but I can't find the link.
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Continue reading →: Smug pensions moocher accidentally makes sensible point
Signs of protest: the best banners at the public services strike marches around Britain – Telegraph.
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Continue reading →: Advancing liberty, one smoke at a time
The cross-party group of MPs hosting this afternoon's sunny "Save our Pubs & Clubs" reception on the Commons Terrace comprised only non-smokers. Messrs Knight and Hemming, like me, have never smoked but feel strongly about liberty. The Labour co-host Roger Godsiff-is an ex-smoker, by his own free choice; a choice…
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Continue reading →: En route to House of Commons Terrace
This life long non-smoker (cigars don't count, right?) is making a principled stand (glass of beer in hand, I hope) at the "Save our Pubs and Clubs" event this afternoon, hosted by MPs Greg Knight, Roger Godsiff and John Hemming. I shall report further in due course. For now I…
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Continue reading →: Isn’t the BBC in the public sector too?
BBC News – Warning of public sector strike threat to UK travel. I am looking forward to Thursday. Since the strikers won't be paid, the unions will deliver the first real reduction in public spending since this farce of a government was cobbled together. Thank you, brothers. The only thing…
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Continue reading →: The Guardian: Offenders should NOT get their just deserts
Reverting to 'tough' justice fails both adults and children | Society | The Guardian. When someone writes that offenders should "get their just deserts" you assume they are a tabloid journalist. But when someone thinks offenders should NOT get their "just deserts" and indeed holds the very concept at arms…
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Continue reading →: Open Letter on the West Lothian Question
The Under Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, recently said; I have always expressed the view that there is no desire for an English Parliament—and the same two people have always written to me afterwards to say that I am wrong. To afford the honourable gentleman some variety in…
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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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