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Musings On Liberty: The Death Penalty

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Sunday, March 22, 2009. This morning I was watching Andrew Marr on BBC 1 and then watched The Big Questions afterwards. One of the issues under discussion was the death penalty, and it triggered a few thoughts. Secondly I would also oppose the death penalty on the grounds that since individuals do not have the right to murder another individual - infringe their liberty - then that power cannot be delegated to the State. On thi...

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Musings On Liberty: Guardian Economics

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Monday, February 16, 2009. Now I would never be so impolite as to accuse the Guardian of economic retardation, but for this. There is no excuse. All respectable employers are more than happy to pay it. Besides, job losses today are not a product of wages. Which are rising at a snailish 3% - but instead a collapse in demand. I'm sorry, what? 1) How exactly can studies tell if the minimum wage has had an effect? An employer cann...

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Musings On Liberty: Give MPs Something To Do

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Saturday, April 25, 2009. Give MPs Something To Do. Douglas Carswell has proposed an excellent reform. To further keep the executive in check. Here's a simple idea.  Require every Whitehall department - and each associated quango - to have it's budget annually ratified by the relevant House of Commons select committee.  No approval, no money. February 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter.

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Musings On Liberty: Freedom Of Association

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, has a fantastic article in the New Statesman. On the importance of freedom of association. Can you imagine such a cogent and philosophically ponderous statement of values from Gordon Brown, David Cameron, or Nick Clegg? This led to an explosion of clubs and associations in every corner of life. As he says:. Freedom of association is something that I fe...

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Musings On Liberty: Rights And Liberties

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Sunday, March 22, 2009. Devils Kitchen has a fantastic post. On the superficially subtle but fundamentally vast chasm between Human Rights and Liberties. In my view his quoting of Bishop Hill sums up the difference, and gives perfectly clear reasoning as to why rights pose the greatest threat to liberty today. So what has this got to do with human rights? How come they can force your children to talk to them? And this is the p...

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Musings On Liberty: Retrospective Legislation

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Monday, March 2, 2009. There is nothing more dangerous than the departure from the rule of law. But that is exactly what is being proposed. By Harriet Harman and her band of merry men (and women, of course). The deputy Labour leader,. Today stepped up the pressure on the former RBS chief executive. To waive his £693,000 pension, saying the government aimed to take the money back from him. Sir Fred is perfectly right when he sa...

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Musings On Liberty: Prisoners To Get The Vote

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Thursday, April 9, 2009. Prisoners To Get The Vote. The news that 28,000 prisoners are to be given the right to vote in elections is outrageous. The Daily Mail reports with characteristic alarmism. Rapists, paedophiles, burglars and muggers could be among 28,800 prisoners handed the right to vote, it emerged last night. The most sensible comment comes from Shadow Home Secretary, Dominic Grieve, for one, who says. The flawed Eu...

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Musings On Liberty: Economic Meltdown & 45p Tax

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Sunday, March 22, 2009. Economic Meltdown and 45p Tax. Reading this morning an interesting piece by the ASI. On the cost of minimal government it set me thinking. OK, so maybe that's not realistic. But here's a still-radical proposal with a little more relevance to the real world: first, go ahead and restrict the Westminster Parliament to those core functions, and that limited tax base. Then replace the welfare state with the ...

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Musings On Liberty: On The Minimum Wage

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Thursday, February 12, 2009. On The Minimum Wage. Christopher Chope MP, you rock! Mr Chope has introduces a ten minute rule bill. Calling for more flexibility in the National Minimum Wage to enable voluntary opt-outs. His speech can be found in full over at ConservativeHome, but here are is the distilled goodness for your delectation. Indeed. Today there are many barriers to free contract, but no doubt that bombshell whizz...

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Musings On Liberty: Twitter And Such

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The Uphill Struggle Against Tyranny. Curious Snippets from a Cynical Optimist. Monday, February 23, 2009. For all those who are interested and wish to follow me - in a non-stalkerish sense - I joined the Twitterati. A few weeks ago. Now since I twitter under my real name, I ought to briefly explain the situation for clarity:. As many of you know I write Curious Snippets. 160; and Musings on Liberty. I am also a UKIP member and candidate, and so run another blog, which is my candidate blog. Ha Not much ne...