THE LAST DITCH

Faces of fear at Canadian 'haunted house' – in pictures | World news | theguardian.com.

What does it tell us that the no-state-too-big, no-tax-too-high totalitarians over at The Guardian find ordinary people looking terrified 'oddly hilarious?' There will clearly be no problem manning the gulags when their political dreams are achieved.

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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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