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David Miliband says Britain right on ‘torture evidence’ refusal – Telegraph.

The “special relationship” has long been unrequited. Do we now know why Secretary of State Clinton, no previous friend of Britain’s, was prepared to make Millibland look good to his home audience by referring to it at their recent meeting?

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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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