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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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Continue reading →: The fastest mission creep in history?
Libya: Col Gaddafi told to leave now or face the bombers – Telegraph. Hang on. I thought the idea (already ill-advised in my view) was that we were authorised by the UN to enforce a no-fly zone to protect civilians from military attacks. Now it’s regime change already! Perhaps he…
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Continue reading →: Nuclear scaredy cats
underdogs bite upwards: Waking nightmares. Leg-iron comments on, amongst other things, the panic buying of radiation protection gear in California; How many nuclear bombs have gone off on this planet? By 1998, the figure stood at 2053. Not reactor leaks. Actual nuclear bombs. Not one of them was Japanese. Nobody…
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Continue reading →: Joy’s enemies
I had the pleasure of making new friends this week. I dined with a wonderful couple introduced by an old friend and client. Their home was beautiful. Their hospitality was spectacular. I was nervous about meeting complete strangers, but within an hour felt right at home. It so happens they…
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Continue reading →: What I meant to say was…
http://www.youtube.com/e/PgTnjTm3YhQ Tomorrow, bright and early, I set off to drive solo from the North of England to the South of France. While I am communing with Vittoria on the French motorways (on my way to a business fair where I hope to come up with interesting ideas for my…
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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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