THE LAST DITCH

Erasing David.

OB-HW817_erasin_E_20100317185103Some more intemperate readers may hope the link refers to the leadership of the Conservative Party. Sorry, chaps. It's the title of a new documentary film. As the film makers' publicity puts it:

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in
the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the
government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and
attempting to disappear a decision that changes his life forever.
Leaving his pregnant wife and young child behind, he is tracked across
the database state on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate
the meaning of privacy and the loss of it.


Need I say that "intrusive surveillance state" is New Labour's Britain? This filmed game of hide and seek should make an interesting movie. At least it's good that someone is picking up on – as my tag line has put it since I started this blog five years ago – "the death of liberty in Britain".

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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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