-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Continue reading →: Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Darling?
FT.com / UK / Economy & Trade – UK ready to commit extra $11bn to IMF. With the government taking the nation further into already record debt at the rate of £10 million per hour, gilt markets wavering, and investors asking if the UK is "another Iceland," one has to…
-
Continue reading →: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens (not)
nourishing obscurity: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens?. The linked item is a (for me) more than usually personal guest post at James Higham's blog, Nourishing Obscurity. He has asked a number of bloggers to write about our favourite things. I hope James will reciprocate with a guest post…
-
Continue reading →: Only a Kennedy could get away with it
Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne by Mark Steyn on National Review Online I had hoped never to mention that odious family again, but the continuing lionisation of, arguably, the worst of them prompts me to refer you to the linked article by Mark Steyn in America's National Review. Mary Jo…
-
Continue reading →: Quote of the day
Dick Puddlecote: It's Confirmed. Scotland Is Going Insane. Mr Puddlecote is one of these, shall we say, trenchant bloggers whom I admire but am too gentle to emulate. My personal view of Scotland is that the immense beauty of that country and the rich variety of its whiskies are Nature's…
-
Continue reading →: Up 9 places in the top 100
Top 100 Right of Centre Blogs. It seems to me that If I slipped a few places this year in the top 20 Libertarian blogs, but am placed higher in the top 100 Right of Centre blogs, the libertarians must be doing better. Does that make sense? Congratulations to Obnoxio,…
THE LAST DITCH
Your blogger
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.”
Socials
Subscribe
Receive content by email
Latest comments
There are many reasons they’re not passed down, Tom. The Triune code, laid out in scripture in all reputable versions…
I’ve always tried to live my life doing no wrong but life isn’t like that so you make compromised but…
Hate to tell you this, but it’s not going to end until you end it. You think people to whom…
[…] – Tom Paine […]
ARCHIVES
Blogspot Archive Mar 2005 – Sep 2006
TypePad/WordPress Archives Sep 2006 – date
The Great American Road Trip of 2013
The Great American Road Trip Posts
First post (in case you want to read it from the beginning)
The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
A little bird tweeted in my ear that it was time to come over and see how things are.