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Promoting ‘a country called Europe’
Read more: Promoting ‘a country called Europe’In so many ways, wrong: New Research: EU diplomats spend £3.4 billion promoting ‘a country called Europe’ EU foreign service now costs £3.4 billion a year The property portfolio of EU embassies is worth £55 million EU ambassadors…
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The CPS on benefits, reform, big government and data
Read more: The CPS on benefits, reform, big government and dataI am an Associate Member of the Centre for Policy Studies and I always enjoy reading their pamphlets: they remind me I am not alone. I caught up with the following four yesterday on the train. The theme?…
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Inflation’s Moral Hazard by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Summer 2009
Read more: Inflation’s Moral Hazard by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Summer 2009But asset inflation—ultimately, the debasement of the currency—as the principal source of wealth corrodes the character of people. It not only undermines the traditional bourgeois virtues but makes them ridiculous and even reverses them. Prudence becomes imprudence, thrift…
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Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online » The Cobden Centre
Read more: Now it’s looking like V for victory over recession – Times Online » The Cobden CentreWriting for The Cobden Centre, I respond to an article in The Times reporting the appearance of prosperity: No one is arguing that the present interventions by government are not giving the impression of prosperity; we agree that…
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CentreRight: One hundred reasons why Ireland should say ‘no’ (again) to Lisbon
Read more: CentreRight: One hundred reasons why Ireland should say ‘no’ (again) to LisbonVia CentreRight: One hundred reasons why Ireland should say ‘no’ (again) to Lisbon: Jim McConalogue, Editor of The European Journal and occasionally of this parish, has listed one hundred reasons why Ireland should again reject Lisbon. It was…
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August 09 visitor locations
Read more: August 09 visitor locationsVia Google Analytics, a map of August’s visitor locations:
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Politics in the noughties
Read more: Politics in the noughtiesResearching for my constituency applications, I revisited Carswell and Hannan’s The Plan, and rediscovered: To put it starkly, the political party as an organism – a complex structure bringing together local branches, clubs, activists, sympathetic newspapers, professions, trade…
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Exit Steve
Read more: Exit SteveIn the end, I made eleven jumps this weekend, seven yesterday and all good fun. Here I asked a tandem cameraman to shoot a solo exit: Exit Steve Originally uploaded by stevenjbaker I find I must make way…
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UKS Boogie – Hibaldstow
Read more: UKS Boogie – HibaldstowSo here we are, Mark and I, at Hibaldstow for this year’s UK Skydiver Boogie. Via Target Skysports: Welcome to Target Skysports, the home of skydiving in the UK. We offer sky diving courses from up to 15,000ft…