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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…
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Continue reading →: Let the debate continue
Stephen Fry provides support for my thesis that atheists tend to be "a" a particular "theos." Fry is not just an atheist from the Christian God, but from the Catholic version of Him. He is, like me, a Protestant Atheist. This speech (from a televised BBC World debate) is a…
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Continue reading →: Worse and worst?
New Details on Tiger's Prenup – The Daily Beast. I am sorry to return to a subject that upsets my valued female readers, but I am interested to know how they react to the linked story. It seems that Tiger Woods has been unfaithful to his wife. It is reported…
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Continue reading →: Sarah Palin and me
American Thinker: Palin and the future. Sarah Palin is not my type, politically. She’s no libertarian. She’s a real conservative, with the sort of small town values I grew up with and could not wait to escape from. I should not like her, but something in me rebels at the…
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Continue reading →: Finally, a business the Guardian approves of…
Why journalism needs paywalls | Tim Luckhurst | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. All my life I have longed for the day when the truth about business would be published in the Guardian. As it happens (no doubt to the horror of some readers) I agree with Tim Luckhurst's basic…
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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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