The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

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Patrick McGoohan – Telegraph.

I am not a number, yet. I am still, just about, a free man. You saw where we were going years ago and you expressed it in a startlingly memorable way. I fear that such a theme may never be explored on British TV again. Certainly not on the BBC, whose Andrew Marr spoofs The Prisoner on Sunday mornings, before going on to suck up shamelessly to the Number Twos who rule us.
RIP Mr McGoohan.

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    tbrrob

    If you had a choice who would you get rid of first Marr or Peston?

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    Tom Paine

    They are both as bad as each other in terms of bias, but Peston is marginally smugger. So Peston. There is something slightly appealing about how visibly ill-at-ease Marr is before a camera. I guess I have the standard English weakness for the have-a-go amateur. His bumbling gives me the (probably false) impression that he has humility enough for his humanity to be rescued, if one could just have a serious word with him over a pint. Peston, however, is entirely lost. I imagine his nearest and dearest have to point a camera at him to get his attention these days.

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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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