THE LAST DITCH

Link: Alex cartoon.Telegraph.

Alex_2 I always start my business day by looking at the Alex cartoon in the Daily Telegraph. It encapsulates life in the City of London. Even though based offshore, I still regard myself as a City lawyer. When a Labour minister said over lunch at our Embassy in Warsaw that the assembled businessfolk were all "representatives of Britain", I commented that I represented only one square mile of it.

To the puzzlement of Russian colleagues, I am following the City tradition of forswearing alcohol in January. These days it’s known as detox. As you see, Alex (click to enlarge) is not doing quite so well.

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  1. jameshigham Avatar

    Even though based offshore…
    Hardly offshore. 🙂

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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