Showing posts with label state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state. Show all posts
Monday, 26 August 2013

In which I get a little Marxist in the cause of minimum government

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**** This is quite a difficult thing for me to write - partly because I'm stepping out from the areas where I'm comfortable with m...
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Thursday, 29 November 2012

New Charity Commission boss starts well...

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**** There has been a deal of debate about the funding of charities and the extent to which too many are too dependent and too close to th...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

“...it’s not a matter of whether you win or lose but how you place the blame”

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  I recall a ‘Peanuts’ cartoon that took the rise out of an old saw with: “...it’s not a matter of whether you win or lose but ho...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Ed Miliband, flat-earther

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**** I try hard to find some semblance of consistency, of common-sense within what passes for policy for the Labour Party but as ever it i...
Friday, 17 February 2012

Are we really a Christian country?

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Barely a week passes without the words appearing somewhere, uttered by a politician or, more likely, by an ageing Anglican clergyman... ...
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Sunday, 30 October 2011

They say Caesar was ambitious...but did the state fund his party?

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It has been a bad week for my love of politics and all who sail in her. Not for the usual, “what on earth are they on about now” stuff but f...
Monday, 26 September 2011

Charity isn't independent so long as it takes the government's cash...

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**** It may be the effect of opposition but Labour folk are keen to see the "third sector" distance itself from government. Here...
Friday, 12 August 2011

Untouchable...

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Not surprisingly, many from the left are praising Peter Oborne’s latest grumble about the corruption of Britain’s business, political and...
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Monday, 25 July 2011

A loud celebration of being right wing...

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Disraeli - a great right winger! I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is b...
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Sunday, 10 July 2011

Seems Robert Halfon wants the government to regulate the Internet (but only for businesses). And he's a Tory?

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**** Now before I go any further let’s be clear that I know little of the technical whizz-bangery that underlies on-line advertising an...