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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…
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Continue reading →: Farewell, Dr John Crippen
nhsblogdoc: NHS BLOG DOCTOR has retired. This is very sad news indeed. The good doctor has been an adornment to the British blogosphere and – while I very often did not agree with him – I shall miss him. Have a good retirement sir.
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Continue reading →: Back to work
My delightful break is over. Today, I shall see Mrs P onto her plane back to the UK at Geneva airport and head off to Cannes for work. At the weekend, she and and I were able to enjoy such views as these courtesy of our gracious hosts who are…
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Continue reading →: The rape of justice
Sex with drunken women could be rape, review to signal – Telegraph. Harriet Harman is an enormous threat to liberty and justice. She has commissioned a study into how to "improve" the conviction rate for rape. Rape is by its nature a difficult crime to prosecute. It is often not…
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Continue reading →: On the run from Canada?
We punish those we should protect | editorial | Comment is free | The Observer. Three deranged people committed suicide and now the hand-wringing left are plucking at our consciences over our Sunday breakfasts. Well, I am sorry comrades. I have no conscience about the dead Russians in Glasgow. And…
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Continue reading →: Motorvated
Your blogger can't retire from work just yet. He has a new version of an old, unrealised ambition. Always believing that, at 2 metres tall, he could not drive a modern Ferrari, he was resigned. Today, on the company's stand at the Geneva Motor Show, he discovered he need not…
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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