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Liberal Musings

April 19, 2011 Longrider 33

My recent spat with the Englishman has served to highlight a strain of libertarian thought that, frankly, disturbs me. It is the same gut feeling […]

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Big Society Has No Teeth

April 17, 2011 Longrider 2

Archbishop Vincent Nichols complains that iDave’s Big Society has no teeth. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has criticised David […]

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No, It Didn’t

April 16, 2011 Longrider 27

I realise that Tim doesn’t like railways. He’s trotted out the canard that the steering wheel made them obsolete often enough for us to get […]

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His Gaff…

April 15, 2011 Longrider 24

I saw the article about the gay couple getting thrown out of a pub a day or so ago and I see that it is […]

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This is News?

April 14, 2011 Longrider 4

I recall many, many years ago looking at Admiral Lord Nelson’s uniform and being amazed by how tiny it was. Back in 1805, he was […]

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Bah! Humbug!

April 14, 2011 Longrider 6

I’m with Brendon O’Neill. My happiness –  or currently, the lack of it –  is my concern and no one else’s. I don’t need a […]

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Newspeak

April 13, 2011 Longrider 22

Orwell summed up Newspeak in “1984”. When I first read it in the late seventies, I found the idea strangely absurd. How could anyone fall […]