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Continue reading →: Time to draw a line
Ambush Predator: Overstepping Their Bounds?. JuliaM (you won't see her coming) correctly identifies the issue. No-one should be surprised that a policeman would overstep his authority. After all, it was his desire to boss people about that drew him to the job in the first place. Everyone faced by a…
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Continue reading →: Woman of the year
2009 in review: MPs' expenses | World news | The Observer. Heather Brooke gave us our only political hope of 2009. She is what all our journalists should be. She explains her motivations for researching MP's expenses succinctly (and rather sadly) in the linked article; I was trying to make…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the day
Obnoxio The Clown: A good day to bury bad news. Not Obnoxio's post about another incompetent terrorist (sorry, dear chap) but comment #1: Good job he was a British engineering student or the ****ing thing might have gone off. I have been harsh about British education in the past, but…
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Continue reading →: A Christmas Appeal
A Christmas Appeal. Over at Anna Raccoon, NorthNorthwester explains British society in a beautifully satirical Christmas appeal. It's tragic and funny all at once. I do hope he didn't spend Christmas Day writing it.
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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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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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