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Greasing up the slippery slope

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[This is a repost of an article that was first posted on Drinkuary] We’ve been a bit quiet of late but we’ve not gone away. Whilst alcohol control has largely left the headlines amidst rumours that minimum pricing will be dropped (though that’s still only rumours) it’s not as though the puritans have stopped their activities. Do you remember how years ago it was just one carriage of a train you couldn’t smoke in and then it was all of the train, well I’d hate to say that it’s a template which gets used a lot but… Eastcoast mainline will … Continue reading →

Mistaken facebook images about Margret Thatcher

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I know arguing about the “information” in those “cleverly” captioned pictures on Facebook, tumblr and everywhere else is utterly pointless, but they’ve been annoying me for too long, so I’m going to indulge my inner pedant and start rebutting the odd one. Today I shall be starting with two relating to Margaret Thatchers demise. This one rather annoys me as it tries to excuse the deeply unpleasant celebration of Mrs Thatcher’s death by trying to claim that November the 5th celebrations are rejoicing in Guy Fawkes death. Now let’s just ignore that even if that was the case for most … Continue reading →

Impressions from the Liberty League Forum

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I had the good fortune to attend the Liberty League freedom forum the other weekend. For a decent write up of it I’d suggest heading over to Samizdata, who are a lot more positive than I fear I’m going to be. First off lets start with the good, congratulations to the organizers for putting together such an excellent range of talks, I genuinely had a hard time choosing which sessions to attend. The talks I attended where well presented interesting and informative so speaking from experience of having organized a conference in the past congratulations job very well done. All … Continue reading →