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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Nationalism cannot exist in a conflict-free condition; it cannot exist as a thing devoid of grudges and claims. Wherever the nationalism of one group rears its head, immediately, as if from beneath the ground, this group's enemies will spring up.
  • Richard Lindzen (climate scientist, MIT)
    Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
  • Edward R. Murrow
    Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
  • Mark Twain
    No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
  • Frederic Bastiat
    And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty.
  • Peter Hain
    People are uniting behind Gordon whether they are Blairites, Brownites or Nothingites like me.
  • AA Gill
    But don’t for a moment imagine that the bicycle-riding, organic-hedgerow-grazing, self-denying, 40-watt miserablists are in fact selfless crusaders for the common good. Never underestimate the sustaining pleasure in a hair shirt. Just look at George Monbiot, and witness a man who couldn’t be happier about the imminent demise of life as we know it. It’s given him purpose, prestige and celebrity: without global warming he’d be a geography teacher.
  • John W. Gardner
    The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
  • Gary Bushell
    The Green Party will go from green to red faster than a frog in a blender.
  • Tom Paine
    Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

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Saturday, February 03, 2007

In England, this weekend

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Today I am visiting my daughter at her school in Gloucestershire (the picture is the view from my hotel window) and attending a lecture by philosopher/arch-Guardianista, Professor AC Grayling. I am still digesting what he had to say. I am sure I will have something to say about it in due course.

Posted by Tom Paine on Saturday, February 03, 2007 in Images | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

The Paine Christmas Table

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Posted by Tom Paine on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 in Images | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Saturday, December 23, 2006

A door in England

Dscn0350I am still looking for something Christmassy to write about. Here's a picture of the front door of Paine Towers to be getting on with...

Posted by Tom Paine on Saturday, December 23, 2006 in Images | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Warsaw by night

I visited my old home town this week. I lived in Warsaw for 11 years and my children grew up there. It is delightfully provincial, even cute, compared to Moscow. Here are some night shots.Library_0005
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Posted by Tom Paine on Thursday, November 23, 2006 in Images | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sunday, November 19, 2006

007 in Moscow

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Casino Royale, playing today at a cinema on Novy Arbat in Moscow. What would Rosa Klebb think?

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Posted by Tom Paine on Sunday, November 19, 2006 in Images | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sunday, November 05, 2006

I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot

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Posted by Tom Paine on Sunday, November 05, 2006 in Images | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Pimp that ride!

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Posted by Tom Paine on Sunday, October 15, 2006 in History, Images | | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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