THE LAST DITCH
My visit to the Geneva motor show was already a couple of weeks ago, but looking through my photographs I found this one of the amazing Aston Martin One-77. At £1.2 million a piece, this is a little out of my league, but it is good to know that such craftsmanship exists and that – even in straitened times – there are people out there able both to appreciate and afford it.
Good luck to them. Beauty and excellence enhance the lives of all.
I will have six. No, make it ten. All of then shall be in dark maroon. And their reg number will be “4”.
Well, I can’t drive more than one at a time, now, can I. I can’t wear more suits at a time than I do either, so what’s the difference? So I will have the Men move the number about a bit, according to which one I am pleased to exercise.
“4” is good. it is sufficiently individual, without giving away my name, such as if I was KAT 1 E ….
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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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The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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