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Continue reading →: A few days’ rest
It's been a fun, but tough, year so far. Just as the Asian working day comes to an end, the one in Europe begins and I have duties on both continents. I am taking a week's holiday in England to catch up on my rest before heading off to the…
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Continue reading →: Pot hole luck
Half of drivers crash or have a near miss swerving to avoid potholes, survey finds – Telegraph. ….and some of us have had a tyre so shredded by one as to be incapable of repair by the "gunk" kit provided instead of a spare tyre. I am happy to report…
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Continue reading →: The Love Police at work, again.
David Cameron thinks we need to set minimum educational standards for our teachers. Perhaps he should look at those for our police (and para-police)? This would be funny, if it were not so sad. Where are the robust English yeomen to tell these floundering, blundering uniformed buffoons where to get…
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Continue reading →: The true meaning of law?
I think this TED lecture is excellent (and equally applicable to Britain). What do you think? http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
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Continue reading →: You know when you’ve been Gordo’ed
Gordon Brown accused of throwing a tangerine – Telegraph. I guess it makes a change from throwing his Orange. I wonder if the colleague he shouted at for handing him the tangerine (presumably on the basis that he should have known not to give him a projectile) was the…
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Continue reading →: A work of fiction
Once upon a time many years ago, young Gemima worked for a British logistics company. Some employees working overseas found themselves stranded by circumstances beyond their control. They were driving a convoy of trucks carrying crates of foodstuffs but were stuck in a remote and barren spot. They were neither…
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Continue reading →: Prescott at Bay
Iain Dale's Diary: How to Cope With a Bullying Prescott. Mr Dale needs no links from a blogging minnow such as me, but it's quicker than a hat tip. Mary Ann Sieghart's column delighted me more than I can say, because (in response to an ill-judged breach of "off the…
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Continue reading →: In which Tom almost becomes an anarchist
Colin Ward obituary | Society | The Guardian. I love Guardian obituaries. Usually, they are fascinating accounts of the reassuringly wasted lives of leftist eccentrics. I derive great pleasure from noting the damage deceased Guardian-reading busybodies entirely failed to do in the course of their pointless lives of bickering and…
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Continue reading →: Who could doubt Lord Mandelson’s word?
BBC News – Mandelson denies Brown 'bullying' claims. I am sure the PM can afford his own legal advice, but let me break a professional habit and offer some for free. If the allegations published in today's Observer are untrue, as both he and Lord Mandelson have now said, he…
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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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