"Six countries – Ireland, Italy, Spain, Britain, France and Germany – can write off more than 50% of their outstanding debt"
"The principle of public policy is this; ex dolo malo non oritur actio. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act. If, from the plaintiff's own standing or otherwise, the cause of action appears to arise ex turpi causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the court says he has no right to be assisted."But Raedwald's excellent blogpost is worth reading in it's entirety; so are the comments.
"The shield of the injunction and the superinjunction must be available only to those who come to the law with clean hands. No longer must the depraved, the unnatural wantons, the perverts, the degenerates and the low, mean scrapings of the moral universe be able to gag comment, reporting or discussion of their turpitude by buying law."
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"Blogger is experiencing one of the worst outages in recent history. A routine maintenance update went haywire and the service is now down for everyone wanting to access their dashboard or post something. What's more, all posts and comments made since May 11 have been removed, Blogger says, temporarily."Current Status: "We've started restoring the posts that were temporarily removed and expect Blogger to be back to normal soon". Ten minutes ago Blogger Buzz posted an update: Blogger Buzz: Blogger is back. No reasons yet. Transition to IPv6?
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"In the process they have achieved more than Mr Blair managed in a decade"James Landale, the BBC News deputy political editor, despite starting on the "Division and recrimination" says something similar: "In 1997, Labour stuttered and hesitated over what to do with its unexpected landslide. This coalition has roared into action with at times dangerous hyperactivity.** Just run your mind through a few of the things it has been doing. It has begun radical reforms... ...These are the long-term, heavy lifting, tricky public policy issues that past governments have been unwilling or unable to tackle."
"Conservatives did not make him do that... ...There was no group of Conservatives designing the tuition fee scheme, no group pressing for it. It was not Conservative policy. The tuition fee scheme was designed by Dr Cable, and pressed by him."Update: Angela Harbutt has a great analysis of the poor 'Yes' campaign on Liberal Vision. I particularly liked this bit - and the BBC with it's Guardian over-represntation of speakers, guests, analyses etc - should take note:
"The YES campaign was eminently winnable. But it ended up being run by readers of the Guardian for readers of the Guardian. Readers of this newspaper are about 1% of the voting electorate – and are also a statistically extreme group. Their views do not chime remotely with mainstream British opinion. There is no purist Guardian editorial proposition that could ever come close to winning a referendum in the UK."
He claimed that releasing pictures of bin Laden with a hole in the head could inflame opinion against the US, and, besides, it so was also \'not who we are', which makes me suspect Obama was fretting less over enraged terrorists than enraged Leftists."The BBC's coverage has been reasonable, I just wonder how they would have reacted if Bush was still in the saddle; and there should be no surprise as to how much scepticism there is: Paul lists some of the many conspiracy theories that began to circulate as soon as OBL's death was announced.
"I have donated such a substantial amount of money because I want to help right a wrong. Rarely, if ever, can any group of servicemen have been more deserving of a memorial to their courage and self-sacrifice than Bomber Command.
The new monument in Green Park, central London, will be a fitting tribute to men who helped to shape the world we live in but whose bravery, until now, has not been properly recognised."
The point is that liberty is indivisible. The case for economic liberty is exactly the same as the case for personal liberty. The economic spectrum goes from authoritarianism to libertarianism just as does the civil liberties spectrum. The government that takes away your economic freedom is as much your enemy as one that takes away your personal freedom.""The problem with the so-called "left libertarians" is that they only seem to accept the idea of communal ownership, and communal ownership of a particular sort. In other words they don't believe in individual liberty at all." Great stuff.
