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Continue reading →: Leftism vs humour
You can’t have a laugh with a Lefty – Telegraph. Simon Heffer doesn't strike me as the cheeriest soul himself. I have only seen him once in person; at Lords, which is a jolly enough place, and he had a longer face than the sporting circumstances justified. Still he nails…
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Continue reading →: Where is the Guardian’s England?
Watching the Royal Wedding, I could not help but wonder who all those people in the streets of London were. Experiencing England, as I have, mainly through its media for the last twenty years, they seemed unfamiliar. They were clearly untroubled by envy, for example. They cheered the succession of…
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Continue reading →: If Liberty has Orphans, then I guess she’s dead
For Liberty. I commend this new venture to you. Group blogs seem to be the way forward now. It’s certainly hard for a solo blogger (especially one with a life) to compete with such sites. Given the people who have signed up as Orphans of Liberty, we can expect great…
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Continue reading →: The fallacy that underlies statist economic policy
When I was a student politician, there was a Trot on the NUS executive who screwed up the papers after each conference session and threw them on the floor with the words "more jobs". He was from some rubbish polytechnic. What's the excuse of our Oxbridge-educated elite for thinking the…
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Continue reading →: If you are going to lie, then at least be consistent
Since Monday, the Paines have been living in London. We have rented an apartment near to the hospital Mrs P. must visit two days a week, three weeks out of four, for the foreseeable future. She was admitted as an in-patient on Tuesday and we are now waiting for her…
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Continue reading →: How can we save the Left?
More stuff does not make us happier. Doing stuff, especially for others, does | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian. Suzanne Moore thinks, apparently, that being left-wing involves trusting people. You don't have to have lived (as I have) in socialist countries with a massive apparatus of…
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Continue reading →: The terrors of Tolley’s
In my days practising commercial law in London 20 years ago, we called our tax lawyer colleagues with the volumes of Tolley's Tax Guide under each arm "the deal busters." My, how their deal-busting weapons have grown. For those at the Socialist Worker Party front known as UKUncut, here…
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Continue reading →: Cuts, what cuts?
Here are three examples from my own recent experience. First (as they might put it) a not rich but "comfortable" elderly couple are spoken to by a medical social worker after a hospital visit. They are financially-independent and in reasonable (though not perfect) health for their age. Both are fully-mobile…
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Continue reading →: The reaction is more interesting than the Rally
I'm attending the Rally Against Debt. And that makes me worse than a Nazi, according to the hysterical Left – Telegraph Blogs. If you are following the #RallyAgainstDebt discussion on Twitter or elsewhere, you will have been struck by the ferocity of the Left's reaction. The cuts only started yesterday…
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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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