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Continue reading →: “When Government Turns Predator”
American Thinker: When Government Turns Predator. I particularly liked the George Washington quote in this article. It is a new one to me, but it sums up the truth denied by statists of right and left everywhere. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire,…
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Continue reading →: Guardian journalists -vs- morality
Manipulating morals: scientists target drugs that improve behaviour | Science | The Guardian. Clearly I wouldn't expect anyone from the Guardian to have a problem with drugs to alter your beliefs (as long as they are to be modified to be the same as theirs). Nor would I expect anyone…
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Continue reading →: Crime is not progressive, it’s reactionary
Harry's Place » Crime is not progressive, it’s reactionary. Since I spend much blogging time criticising the writings of those on the Left in Britain, I feel it's only fair to highlight the linked article, which is amazingly sensible. Those of us who grew up in working-class areas have never…
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Continue reading →: Spread the word! #RallyAgainstDebt
Please spread the word! : Rally Against Debt. The old cynic in me fears that the Rally (conceived, I am sure, as a Facebook witticism but now gathering momentum) will be a damp squib. If so, there will be lessons to be learned. Right thinking bloggers will earnestly/bitterly juxtapose the…
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Continue reading →: The cost of high-tech medicine
Britain has fewer high-tech medical machines than Estonia and Turkey – Telegraph.This will not surprise anyone who has lived in an emerging market. The interesting question is "why?" In a spirit of scientific enquiry let me offer a theory for you all to shoot down; The profitability to the vendor…
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Continue reading →: Rally Against Debt!!
Rally Against Debt. Some humorous soul on Facebook is organising a Rally again Debt in London on 14th May between 1100 and 1400. If you have not succumbed to the electronic embraces of FB yet, it is billed as follows A well mannered, polite rally for civilised people who don't…
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Continue reading →: Of anarchists and force
TUC march: How a family day out turned to mayhem – Telegraph. I wish journalists were more careful in their presentation of poltical viewpoints. The people who rioted yesterday are not "anarchists". The demonstration was demanding more use of government force to enslave private sector workers for additional days each…
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Continue reading →: Britons march to demand others work to keep them…
…but some Americans still understand freedom (and even have a sense of humour about their equivalents of such shameless parasites as these). Do enjoy. h/t The Agitator
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Continue reading →: Cowboys etc.
nourishing obscurity » Cowboy songs.JD over at Nourishing Obscurity has posted links to three classic cowboy songs. He hit a couple of my nostalgia buttons (an emotion I try to avoid, it's not as good as is used to be). In the comments, I suggested he should have featured "Big…
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Continue reading →: Imaginary Stories: There should be a law against it
Child poverty shames the UK – so use the budget to invest in our young | Paddy Ashdown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Even necessary laws are evils. Unecessary laws are worse. Yet, with leftist imaginations given legislative free rein, it's hard sometimes – even for a libertarian –…
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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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