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Continue reading →: Sympathy for the devil
Britain to press Libya to compensate IRA victims | Top News | Reuters. I find the Al-Megrahi farce interesting, but I share few of the sentiments being expressed. For once, I sympathise with the British government, at least in some respects. I am reluctant to join in the gleeful trouncing…
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Continue reading →: Tom Paine’s Daughter
Tom Paine's Daughter I would have to be pretty churlish not to link to this blog, wouldn't I? While your blogger has two daughters and one of them is highly political (and has been known to blog) I think this new blogger is claiming a relationship to the original and…
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Continue reading →: SAS man bullied?
Muslim SAS soldier sues MoD for racial discrimination – Telegraph. To think I was hard on a member of my own learned profession for playing the victimhood card! If a lawyer should be too tough to be bullied, how much more so a special forces soldier? If he was worthy…
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Continue reading →: The biggest asylum in the world?
Councillor Terry Kelly: SING IT OUT LOUD – GOD HELP AMERICA. Councillor Kelly doesn't like America. He's much more fond of Cuba. As a proud member of Scottish Labour, he might actually be to the left of his hero, Fidel Castro. Linking to him is enough, really. His blog is…
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Continue reading →: There speaks a true blogger
Global Voices Online » Iran: “My interrogator had read all my posts”. If you read this story and felt jealous, you may be taking your blogging too seriously.
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Continue reading →: A very British death
The Gold Standard for an Obscene Death. I didn't know how to be more than vaguely uneasy about this story when I read it yesterday. Anna Raccoon (post linked above) explains from a position of knowledge and experience. If you are a British reader, there is a very high chance…
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Continue reading →: Stats 2004-6
I was wrong when I said I couldn't graph the data for the first 18 months of this blog. StatCounter is able to do it – and here, embarrassingly, are the results. Click to enlarge and laugh, bearing in mind that – like yesterday's – these are monthly figures! It…
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Continue reading →: Stats 2006 to date
Compared to the big boys, this is nothing I know (click to enlarge and it's still not very big). Still it shows that monthly readership has grown slowly, but steadily, since The Last Ditch moved to Typepad in September 2006. The big early spike, in case you're curious, just shows…
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Continue reading →: Scorched earth
Alistair Darling vows to carry on spending through recession – Telegraph. I simply don't believe Labour is as stupid as this suggests, though that has usually been a more than an adequate explanation for its past errors. This must be deliberate policy. It is terrible to believe that fellow citizens…
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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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