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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…
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Continue reading →: A pleasant afternoon
It was great to meet James Higham today, whose blog I have read for so long. His writing style is so intensely personal that I had the strange feeling of renewing auld acquaintance. James is in life as he seems from his blog; affable, erudite and articulate. It was good…
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Continue reading →: What rights are conferred by your son being murdered?
Jon Venables could be killed if his identity is revealed, key judge warns | UK news | The Guardian. Any parent feels for Denise Fergus. We can sympathise with her unabated anger against the two young children (now adults) who killed her son. But her insistence that as James Bulger's…
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Continue reading →: Violence, lies and manipulation
True scale of violent crime rise revealed – Telegraph. No-one of sound mind believed Labour's story that violent crime was falling. I don't believe they expected us to believe it, when it contradicted everyday experience. Like the tractor statistics of Soviet times, we were only required to pretend to believe,…
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Continue reading →: From the Despatch Box
Miss Paine the Younger gave us a tour of Parliament this morning. Your blogger stood at the government despatch box and did his best to dispel the aura of statist evil it emits. This is posted from the other despatch box though; the cafeteria in the atrium of Portcullis House,…
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Continue reading →: One law for them, another for us.
Labour politician resigned after admitting taking cocaine – Telegraph. If a dealer told the drugs squad that you were a user, how would you expect them to react? It seems that the answer is "it depends." Most of us could expect them to seek corroborating evidence and prosecute us. A…
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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