THE LAST DITCH
'Cocaine to blame for 41% of our crimes' | Metro.co.uk.
Statistics are a dangerous thing.
Greater Manchester Police drug-tested 1,000 people arrested for violent offences in the seven month period to March last year.
Half tested positive for drugs and of these, 86% tested positive for cocaine.
Had they tested them for food, I am quietly confident that 100% would have eaten some in the previous 24 hours. Oh, and I think half of 86% is 43%, not 41%. Maybe the journalist has been using?
Oh, dear, they didn’t accept my comment. Not surprised. It only did uproot 100 years of bad political ideology in a few short sentances. No matter, there are others who seek the truth.
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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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