'Virtue, knowledge, love of liberty, are the qualities which call down the fatal vengeance of inquisitors; and when expelled, leave the society in the most shameful ignorance, corruption and bondage'
- #DavidHume

Great piece by Andrew Neil on #Scotland 's ' #HateCrime ' law…

October 7, 2023

The day the music died

Quite the UK GDP revision today - hugely higher level - almost 2% up
- ONS found stockbuilding down the back of the sofa in 2020
- and foud wholesale and health services much stronger than expected in 2021

Means the UK is not a global outlier any more....

Political courts mean political judges - which are a constitutional challenge

UK solution was to not have them

USA solution is to elect them or to investigate their views

The European solution was to ignore the problem and assume we can just trust the judges - can we?

BREAKING — Conference on the Future of Europe approves radical overhaul of the EU: end of unanimity, abolishment of veto’s, launch of Joint Armed Forces of the Union, transnational lists and many other reforms…

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Analysis from the IMF has found that since 2010, Real GDP in the UK has grown faster than in comparable European nations such as France, Germany, Italy or Spain.

We are committed to continuing to grow the economy and provide economic opportunities for people across the UK.

The rule of law explained in 48 seconds. If you retweet nothing else, ever, retweet this.

Your regular reminder that British public information films were like brutal horror films condensed into 30 second chunks, and shown during primetime (and children's) TV shows.

118 MP's who denied democracy, vote them out!

During 16th century wars between England and Scotland border people recruited into the national armies felt more attachment to each other than to Westminster or Edinburgh, and so would only pretend to fight. From Graham Robb's The Debatable Land

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“It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during “God Save the King” than of stealing from a poor box.”

George Orwell, 1941.

I have published my analysis of the proposed deal

It is not for me to endorse or condemn it. My role is to say what it does as law

As law, it empowers the EU to control a UK government of any kind and traps Northern Ireland outside the union

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It is worth remembering that the UK Government put £16billion extra into the railway system to sustain it through the pandemic.

It is normally subsidised with £4 billion a year.

This strike totally ignores what this Government did to support the railway system

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of the nation, must begin by subduing the freedom of speech...”

John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, ‘Cato’s Letters’, 1721.

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This is the dialectic that our frought, violent, history has caused to flourish, so well put expressed by Robert Tombs. And thank God for that.
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