THE LAST DITCH
Continuing my theme of distentangling honest-to-Stalin Leftism from good old-fashioned British Puritanism, I was looking for an image to illustrate something Mrs P. and I noticed yesterday. Out on the town in Shanghai, we saw many motorcyclists riding (legally) without helmets and smoking en route.
Oddly enough, I couldn't find a suitable photo, but I did find these.
http://www.liveleak.com/e/175_1234062872
Let the debate between outraged statists and on-the-back-foot libertarians begin.
One would think the ash would blow all over them.
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This is not just a Shanghai phenomenon; whilst in Italy last year it was not unusual to see a mother with up to three children perched on a Vespa, buzzing between the lines of traffic. One particularly intrepid woman had a small child propped on the handlebars and a 25kg canister of propane wedged between her feet.
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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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