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Continue reading →: £404,000,000,000 stolen
Climate Change Act: Now the world faces its biggest ever bill – Telegraph. The important point in this story is that our Parliament enacted a law without knowing it would cost £404 billion. Come to think of it there's another important point; our journalists are so lame that the said…
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Continue reading →: Breaking news from the planet Zog…
Industrial action 'real risk' under Tory government, warns TUC general secretary | Politics | The Guardian. "The nobility, united, shall never be defeated!" In my exclusively private sector world of late, friends have lost their jobs or their businesses; some at a time of life when it will be hard…
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Continue reading →: We are all Russians today
Female suicide bombers kill 37 in Moscow metro | World | Reuters. I am waiting for news* and desperately hoping none of my Russian colleagues is among the innocents murdered today in Moscow. No cause justifies such actions. As a nation that endured a terror campaign for decades, we British…
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Continue reading →: The end of days?
Intercepting mail is worthy of the Stasi | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. If the polls are to be believed, a lethal proportion of our fellow-citizens remains willing to vote Labour in a few weeks time. This, despite all the evidence of the terrible damage that Labour…
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Continue reading →: Taking the capitalist road
We thought we had capitalism sussed but we are mere beginners to the Chinese. Witness these video ads playing relentlessly in the back of my Shanghai taxi. Blog posted here.
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Continue reading →: BA commits suicide slowly
FT.com / UK / Business – Union warns BA of fresh strike action. BA has been on my "no fly" list for some years, because of its unique combination of surly service by dowdy staff in shabby aeroplanes from dirty terminals. It is a sort of airborne metaphor for modern…
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Continue reading →: A little something to keep you amused
Something from China to keep the blog warm while I fly back there. It's a bit long but, trust me, it's worth watching to the end…
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Continue reading →: My Birthday in Cannes last week
Your humble blogger was off the 'net for most of last week, as there was no connection in the apartment where I stayed while attending the MIPIM real estate fair in Cannes. The batteries on my iPhones barely coped with the requirements of work in such a hectic environment and…
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Continue reading →: A new forum for Liberty?
Liberty Network – Uniting Libertarians in the UK. Well done Max Andronichuk for setting this up and good luck to all participants. If you are interested in a space to discuss libertarian issues with others of like mind, by all means get over there and join. There is plenty to…
THE LAST DITCH
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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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