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Tom Paine is the nom de plume of a retired international lawyer who was formerly a partner in a City of London law firm’s offices in Warsaw, Moscow and Shanghai.

At various times he was managing partner in Poland and China and/or headed the global firm’s international real estate investment and finance practice. He spent almost 20 years abroad from 1992 to 2011.

He is a libertarian / classical liberal and as such pretty horrified by the authoritarian tendencies the British Establishment developed in his absence. He began to blog in response to the horrifying Prevention of Terrorism Act of 2005.

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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