If you are not regularly reading Michael Yon, you are really missing out on something interesting.
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As a great French historian has pointed out, the vineyards of France are perhaps the single greatest cultural legacy of the Roman empire, and it is now more than two millennia since people in Britain first became aware of the intoxicating powers of wine. In all that time, no government in history has yet thought the people so moronic that they needed to be told, on the bottle, that wine could go to your head – Boris Johnson, discussing plans to put warning labels on wine. June 7th, 2007 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
 It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. – H. L. Mencken June 5th, 2007 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Freedom is not feeling like an outcast in the face of mainstream consensus. – Adriana Lukas at the Apeldoorn conference in the Hague June 3rd, 2007 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies – Groucho Marx May 29th, 2007 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
It seemed to me that on one side you had representatives of a fanatical cult trying to foist its views on the rest of the world and on the other… the Church of Scientology. Truly, they deserve one another. May 17th, 2007 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Vote Blue” the Tories say, “Go Green” – Sean Gabb. To see him on 18 Doughty Street discussing the Resignation of Tony Blair, go here. May 14th, 2007 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
That [Sarkozy] appears clueless as to the functional benefits of speculation is not surprising – politicians are generally clueless. It’s his idea that a bunch of politicians could ‘reinforce the morality’ of anything I find truly gobsmacking! A mob of used car salesmen would do a better job… – Commenter Sean May 9th, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Is using perfectly legal methods of minimising tax right? The answer is no. – Andrew Pendleton, a senior campaigner at Christian Aid April 29th, 2007 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
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The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy – Fred L. Smith April 17th, 2007 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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