THE LAST DITCH

BBC NEWS | UK | Time limits on innocent DNA data.

Miss P the Younger says that, while Mrs P is a genuine cynic, I am merely a constantly-disappointed idealist. She may have a point. After more than a decade of Labour, I actually thought on Sunday that the government (albeit reluctantly and spinning it furiously as its own decision) was going to comply with a court order and destroy the DNA records of innocents. I really must try harder to understand that they are so far from decency that nothing, however despicable, can safely be ruled out.

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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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