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Continue reading →: In the deep mid-winter
Cranmer: Where is Lord Adonis?. I am far too jolly to blog. My new job is going to be fun. It has taken a year to set up the venture I am going to head and my sense of achievement is deliciously combined with the glow of new challenges ahead…
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Continue reading →: Bad law corrupts
Elin Nordegren could be paid more than $50 million extra for sticking with Tiger Woods – Telegraph. If Elin Nordegren divorces Tiger Woods, I shall be impressed. She is a wronged woman. He has humiliated her. If she has fallen out of love, she cannot be blamed. If she takes…
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Continue reading →: Back in business
My Private Network. Thanks to prompt support from customer service at my-private-network.co.uk I am up and running and able to access all areas. Normal service will now resume.
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Continue reading →: From my new home
I moved into my new apartment in Shanghai yesterday and, as this is the first post from there, I have raised the new masthead. Sadly, my virtual private network doesn't work yet so – as Typepad and other blogging platforms are blocked here – I have write-only access to my…
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Continue reading →: Oh dear oh dear oh dear
The Misanthrope – Keira Knightley's West End debut – Telegraph. Well we Paines enjoyed each other's company, and the rapid reviews in the taxi home were fun. "I have never seen a corset sag before", "my that's a clavicle and a half, she'll have his eye out with that", "she…
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Continue reading →: Why can’t Cameron close the deal?
Gordon Brown tells Labour party to get set for snap election – Times Online. It is incredible that there can be any doubt about the outcome of the next election. Labour has brought us, as it always does, to the edge of the economic abyss. So far from being, as…
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Continue reading →: Which leader are you?
I am not sure about this result, but give it a go yourself. What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com h/t Man Widdicombe
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Continue reading →: On the road again
I and my worldly goods are on the road. We shall not be reunited for a long time. The movers in Russia need a copy of my work permit for China before they can despatch them, which will take months to arrange.This small matter seems to have been overlooked by…
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Continue reading →: A curious “logic”
Darling announces one-off shock tax to 'break bonus culture' | UK news | The Guardian. Sources close to our glove-puppet Chancellor (quite possibly so close as to be the hand wiggling his implausible eyebrows) observe; "Salaries have got out of hand. They have been paying themselves like football stars." What…
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Continue reading →: Onwards and Eastwards
The Last Ditch was conceived in and has been mainly executed from my apartment in Moscow. It has been my home for four of the seven years I have spent in Russia and I am fond of it. I find myself strangely reluctant to leave, but tomorrow my bed…
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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A little bird tweeted in my ear that it was time to come over and see how things are.