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Switzerland, I bid you adieu

After two years of Swiss life, I am leaving the land of cheese, chocolate and nazi-gold for pastures fresh so I thought I would give you all the benefit of wisdom in relation to this small alpine retreat and the things it is supposedly famous for…
Safe Streets
Although crime has increased in Switzerland in recent years, [...]

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Boris, Davis, Kearney, Scott, Harris, Brown, Cameron, Clegg

Real life has been catching up with me recently and haven’t really been keeping up with the developments in political life so this is a quick run-down of my opinions on various matters:
Boris/Local Elections/Crewe
I know it was all a long time ago now and I hate to remind you all but I wasn’t overly optimistic [...]

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The Secret to Henley

Personally, I was quite disappointed when I turned on my computer this morning to see the results of yesterday’s polls, I was hoping for a closer race.  I guess a lot of soul-searching will be done by the campaign team over the next few days.
However, On the metro into work I came across something that [...]

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Double-D has 25 opponents

There are apparently going to be 26 names on the voting slip in Haltemprice and Howden on 10 July:

Grace Christine Astley - Independent
David Laurence Bishop - Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Ronnie Carroll - Make Politicians History
Mad Cow-Girl - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
David Craig - Independent
Herbert Winford Crossman - Independent
Tess Culnane - National [...]

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Doris Lessing

An interesting interview with British author Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature has been put up on the nobelprize website, if, of course, you are interested in that sort of thing.

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Lasciate Ogni Speranza Voi Ch’Entrate

This post is a shameless copy of Jennie’s over at the yorksher gob, but you know Jennie, Plagiarism is the highest form of flattery
Firstly, What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?

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You scored as Dante Alighieri
According to you most of humanity will spend at least some [...]

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"To the beloved memory of Harriet Mill"

I visited Avignon and the surrounding area over the weekend. On Sunday morning I went and found John Stuart Mill’s tomb in the cemetery.  He is buried there with his wife, whom had died 15 years previous.
 

Although the sides of the tomb bear his name, the marble top contains the eulogy [...]

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Friday Quick Quiz

Later on today I am off to Avignon for the weekend.
Question:  Which liberal hero’s grave can I visit there?
No Wikipedi-ing
Winner gets to enable *smugmode*

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Britain should learn from Switzerland

The ASI blog has a post on what my old residence (Britain) could learn from my current residence (Switzerland).  Worth a read, especially if localism is your thang.
Personally I don’t agree entirely with it’s rosy view of the federation but as I am now in my last few days of life en suisse and I [...]

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Speak to Me (Once More)!

Hi all, I would like to sound you all out on the possibility of running real-time chats, via coveritlive, with prominent party members.
Like most, I have been massively impressed with Millenium’s blogger interviews.  The chance for us hoi-polloi to go and talk face-to-face with the top people in one of the main parties in British [...]