THE LAST DITCH
I was exchanging email reminiscences with an old friend about a dinner to which he treated me in London two decades ago. A giant of our industry happened to be sitting at the next table and suggested my friend should pick up his bill as well. He wrote that he would have if the gentleman were not a billionaire, adding;
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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