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Continue reading →: Public is not realistic
Public is not realistic about terrorism, Scotland Yard chief says – Telegraph. Isn't it odd that the police regularly tell us that our fear of crime is irrational but now also say we are not afraid enough of terrorism? If we are wimps, surely we would be overly afraid of…
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Continue reading →: This is what “equality” looks like…
In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year | zero hedge. It's not just in Britain that the Welfare State has become a quagmire of perverse incentives. Consider this chart (click to enlarge); Does…
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Continue reading →: The Liberty Cabal
With blogger after blogger throwing in the towel of late, it's good to be able to report a new venture. The Liberty Cabal is a new site where a selection of writers "from the humanitarian sphere" will publish their thoughts. I urge you to head over there and check it…
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Continue reading →: Predictive messaging, the curse of the careless
Mrs P. loves her iPhone, but hates predictive messaging. She has too quick a trigger finger for the "send" button, which has led to some confusion amongst her correspondents. None quite as good as this gem, however. h/t The Daily What
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Continue reading →: It was 20 years ago today
Margaret Thatcher: My tears for the iron lady – Telegraph. The mess we are in began 20 years ago today. Margaret Thatcher had fired a large enough group of "wets" that – clinging together in their mediocrity – even they felt brave enough to take her on. I was at…
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Continue reading →: The state can do no wrong
The naked truth: TSA can touch my junk anytime | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Of course (except in the eyes of Guardian journalists) it can and often does. In some fields in fact, it does little else. But if it wants to do something that would be wrong for…
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Continue reading →: The View From….2007
The View From…Moscow at Conservatives Abroad : The View From…. The past is another country. Back in 2007, living in Moscow, I was persuaded to contribute the linked piece to the Conservatives Abroad website. I guess I had still not fully accepted at that point that I was no longer…
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Continue reading →: Don’t ever park illegally in Scotland
click to enlarge. h/t a Scottish friend in Shanghai
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Continue reading →: I’m ‘Enery the Eighth I am
Concern over use of 'Henry Vlll' powers to overturn acts of parliament | The Law Gazette. It's time for every liberty-minded blogger who has retired, jaded, after the fall of Labour to return to the fray. Why? Because, in the words of Joshua Rozenberg in the Law Society Gazette last…
THE LAST DITCH
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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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