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Continue reading →: Genies and bottles
How I became the story and why the Right is wrong | News. My post last Saturday was based on the quoted remarks of Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett. He is now trying to qualify those remarks and to accuse the Right…
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Continue reading →: Parish notice No. 2
The Last Ditch: Parish notice. Thank you for your votes and your comments on the new banner for The Last Ditch when it moves to China. The vote was not particularly conclusive. My own preference was option 3, but in responding to the suggestion that I needed a lofty overview…
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Continue reading →: Giving an unattractive nation a makeover
Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser – Telegraph. This story proves the Labour Party knows no ethical boundaries to state power. A government should serve the people, not seek to manipulate them. Social re-engineering of the people in the interests of the governing party…
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Continue reading →: Parish notice
The reaction to the new banner I designed for the Last Ditch when it relocates to China was not positive. So I have tried again. Here are the current three choices. I would be grateful if you could indicate your preference (click on images to enlarge). Thanks in advance. Click…
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Continue reading →: With capitalists like this…
FT.com / Comment / Opinion – The two-stage de-risking of banks. I am not arguing with Mr El-Erian's thesis here, but I am rather alarmed by his language. Apart from the horrible and unnecessary word "de-risking" (eugh), consider the way he describes the sequence of events in the late economic…
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Continue reading →: Democracy gone sour?
The furore over Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time showed me just how much Britain has changed since I left it in 1992. As I followed the interminable and intemperate "debate", I felt more and more disconnected. The mob at the BBC Television Centre calling for Griffin and his followers…
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Continue reading →: MPs’ expenses: still not getting it
MPs' expenses: pay rise for MPs to stop rebellion – Telegraph. Unlike angrier members of the blogosphere, I would be happy for a reasonable number of MP's to be paid a handsome salary. We have too many for the size of country and the scope of the role, given that…
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Continue reading →: Crime mapping
Crime mapping for English and Welsh police forces – CrimeMapper. A new crime mapping website is available in England & Wales. I used it to check the area around my house in England and the results surprised me. It's a city centre and I knew there was crime but was…
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Continue reading →: It gets better
MPs' expenses: parliamentary privilege could hamper police inquiries – Telegraph. If they use (spurious) claims of parliamentary privilege to interfere with police investigations, even the densest voters will know them for what they are. Our elected representatives seem intent – for the first time – on solving the problem of…
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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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