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“The East Coast Forestry scheme should be abolished” – A conversation that took place between a senior minister of the government of New Zealand and an adviser who had been sent to “evaluate” said scheme, back in the glorious days of yore when New Zealand had been taken over by rabid free-marketers. (Sadly, New Zealand is these days once again run by some of the world’s squishiest leftists). April 10th, 2005 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
 April 8th, 2005 | 35 comments - (Comments are closed)
We are bloggers. Venetian blinds do not scare us. – Scott Wickstein earlier this (Australian) evening. April 1st, 2005 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
To hear conservatives indicate that a husband is not the person best qualified to decide what his wife would have wanted indicates a view of what marriage constitutes that seems rather at odds with the usual conservative obsession with the importance and gravity of that institution. March 30th, 2005 | 35 comments - (Comments are closed)
Stephen Pollard, a former member of Britain’s Young Conservatives who is now a New Labour guru, has an article in the Times called: My easy ride in the Senate seat. Life after his easy ride is getting a little more tricky, with a savaging from Global Growth, the free-market NGO. March 15th, 2005 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Although Samizdata concerns itself with more important things than mere politics (thankfully for our collective sanity), it seems wrong that we should pass let without record the government’s announcement of its intention to introduce indefinite executive detention for UK citizens. For those who missed the vigourous Parliamentary debate (which must have lasted at least 15 minutes), in future anyone may be locked up indefinitely in their own home on the say-so of the Home Secretary, based on evidence known only to him. The Daily Telegraph appears to blame the Human Rights Act, noting that this decision is ostensibly being taken because the Law Lords said that it was illegal to empower the Home Secretary only to detain foreigners arbitrarily. This view is advanced notwithstanding Lord Hoffman’s ditcta that applying such a equally rule to British citizens is no more defensible. But it is an absurd idea that such unlimited arbitrary power of arrest and detention is something the government reluctantly finds has been thrust upon it. On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I am tempted to wonder about the timing. Is this just a good day to bury bad news? Is it some kind of sick joke? Is the government double-daring libertarians to announce the beginning of the police state on the day we remember the ghastly outcome of arbitrary rule? Whatever the truth, it is a black day. January 27th, 2005 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness January 25th, 2005 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
January 18th, 2005 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
I do not know about you but I just hate those ‘year in review’ things that clog up the TV and the internet at this time of year. And now for something completely different. 1 Jan 2004: The year started with a party Oh, and some good and bad things happened in Iraq, some guy got elected in the US and some other stuff happened in some other places. December 28th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Michael Howard’s Conservative Party is planning a U-turn over identity cards – but not until after the General Election. According to a senior Conservative Party MP, the plan is to support ID cards at present in order to look tough on law and order, but they will drop support on ‘practical grounds’ when public opinion edges away. Cynically, Michael Howard’s office has already drawn up plans to flip-flop in the summer. I believe this is called ‘conviction politics’. December 22nd, 2004 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
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