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Troublesome North Korea Strikes Again | Cato @ Liberty
Read more: Troublesome North Korea Strikes Again | Cato @ LibertyAn alternative perspective on North Korea from the Cato Institute: The North Koreans have been busy, testing a nuclear weapon and shooting off missiles. It seems that nothing upsets North Korea more than being ignored. … However, this…
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A new politics: We need a massive, radical redistribution of power | David Cameron | The Guardian
Read more: A new politics: We need a massive, radical redistribution of power | David Cameron | The GuardianDavid Cameron writes, in the Guardian, four articles on reforming politics: The public reaction to the political crisis over MPs’ expenses is far too serious to be assuaged by any instant package of measures, or even the sight…
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Where are the rebel MPs who will dare to vote from the heart? – Telegraph
Read more: Where are the rebel MPs who will dare to vote from the heart? – TelegraphBoris piles in: We need Members who defy party pressures and go with their conscience, says Boris Johnson. … They file through the lobbies to vote – and what are they voting on? Nine times out of 10,…
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The manic depressive and the chronic depressive economy
Read more: The manic depressive and the chronic depressive economyA couple of quotes from De Soto, pp 456-474. From “Effects the business cycle exerts on the banking sector”: Hence we can conclude that an inherent trend in the privileged exercise of fractional-reserve banking leads to bank consolidation…
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325 MPs to be swept away at next election – Times Online
Read more: 325 MPs to be swept away at next election – Times OnlineAT least half of the House of Commons’ 646 MPs will be swept away at the general election, as voters take revenge on the political classes for the expenses scandal. The departure of 325 members of parliament as…
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Cirencester Park
Read more: Cirencester ParkCirencester Park, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.
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MPs’ expenses: Now is the time to obliterate the professional political class – Telegraph
Read more: MPs’ expenses: Now is the time to obliterate the professional political class – TelegraphFascinating remarks from Charles Moore. They make me glad that I am, as one front-bencher put it, “hard to caricature as a professional politician”: The reason for this is that Labour really does believe in a political class.…
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The Times’ commentators move to support British democracy
Read more: The Times’ commentators move to support British democracyThree interesting articles in The Times today: Regulation comes in, necessarily, when you recognise that you can’t rely as much as you might hope on people’s intelligence or goodwill. But this can turn into an excuse for failing…