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Continue reading →: Mr Worstall speaks for England
Oh fuck off you miserable little wankers.Tim is unhappy that our warriors fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be brought home to their families via the back gates of RAF Brize Norton rather than the streets of Royal Wootton Bassett. He says that; Tories used to get this military…
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Continue reading →: Second only to Singapore for Government intrusion
Google report reveals British government web snooping – Telegraph. Those friends who think my concerns for liberty in Britain overblown should consider the country's consistently high position, when adjusted for population, in Google's rankings for requests for private data from government intelligence services. To be up there with authoritarian Singapore…
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Continue reading →: Justice: RIP?
Justice: RIP? | Beneath The Wig. In the wake of Levi Bellfield's conviction for the murder of Amanda ("Millie") Dowler, I have been conducting an unpopular defence of our adversarial system of criminal trials over at the excellent blog of Inspector Gadget. It's an important issue. Our rights to be…
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Continue reading →: Scraping the tax barrel
Wirral Resource Centre/Home Page. Our country must really be in trouble. I knew tax offices were under instruction to turn every stone to find revenue for our desperate (and financially incontinent) government but who could have imagined this would involve reopening the 1990s tax accounts of charities? Had the error…
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Continue reading →: Blood, soil and soccer
Half of Britons have German blood – Telegraph. The linked article is hardly news, surely? Most Anglo-Saxons have only a hazy idea of where the Angles came from (Angeln in Schleswig-Holstein) but surely all of us know the Saxons came from Saxony? We are known by the hyphenated names of…
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Continue reading →: Hammond Meets Moss
BBC – BBC Four Programmes – Hammond Meets Moss. Having complained recently about the poor quality of most modern British broadcasting, let me mention an intelligent show I watched last night. I am a Top Gear fan but have always thought the Hamster (how to put this kindly…?) more charming…
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Continue reading →: Vandalism, art or satire?
Painting the Soviet army monument is vandalism: Bulgarian Minister of Culture – Bulgaria – The Sofia Echo. Of course, the Bulgarian Minister of Culture is right about the criminality of the act. Banksy's a criminal too. He's wrong about this though; We (Bulgarians) are the only ones led by some…
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Continue reading →: Midday train to Georgia
I am on The Freedom Association's Facebook list and the invitation to today's Freedom in the City meeting caught my eye. It was addressed by the Georgian Ambassador to London, Mr Giorgi Badridze. His Excellency has been rather forthright in the past about his country's relations with Russia. I knew…
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Continue reading →: Delusions of importance
One of the most disturbing things about being back in Britain is being exposed – for example when watching Question Time from Norwich this week – to the delusions of the British people about their country's role in the world. One audience member after another said words to the effect…
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Continue reading →: Are they rude, or am I out of date?
Crossing the UK border by car today, the young immigration officer asked me if Mrs P could look up and take off her sunglasses. His view of her in the passenger seat was blocked and he needed her to lean forward so he could do his job. Fair enough. Except…
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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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