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Continue reading →: Tom’s day out in China
Hangzhou – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. No politics today. Your blogger is working in Shanghai at present and took the opportunity to explore some of China, taking a 380km round trip to Hangzhou. I knew of the Chinese saying… Above is Heaven, Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou …so I was…
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Continue reading →: Thank you
Top 20 Libertarian Blogs. I would like to pretend I don't care but my readers have seen through me anyway. Thank you for your votes, which just kept the Last Ditch in the top ten. I am not surprised to slip a couple of places, given the arrival on the…
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Continue reading →: The last word on the NHS debate?
Dizzy Thinks: Grow up you morons. I tend to think Dizzy overrated, not least by himself. That may be because I met him once and was delighted to do so for a few seconds, until he uttered – all unprovoked – a sneering personal remark. One doesn't like to be…
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Continue reading →: Proud of the NHS?
The Conservative Party | News | The Blue Blog | We are proud of the NHS. David Cameron sent me an email today. Click the link above to read it in full. He wrote; One of the wonderful things about living in this country is that the moment you're injured…
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Continue reading →: Farewell to M’Learned Friend
TheFatBigot Opines: Why I'm no longer here. There's no facility to leave a comment there, but I am sad to see that the Fat Bigot (who must be very thin, if his name is internally consistent) is giving up blogging. His reasoning is honourable, as any regular reader would expect,…
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Continue reading →: Justice -vs- Social Justice
Groucho Marx said that military justice bore the same relationship to justice that military music bore to music. One might also say that social justice bears the same relationship to justice as social housing bears to housing (or social security to financial security). Individual justice has always been about equality…
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Continue reading →: Who? Whom? That is the only question.
A request to snoop on public every 60 seconds – Telegraph. The British electorate has taken its eye off the ball. More precisely, it has taken its eye off its political and administrative classes. It has failed in that eternal vigilance that is the price of liberty. This blog and…
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Continue reading →: Blue meanies?
The Osterley Times: Abbey Road 40th Anniversary – London. There was much coverage yesterday of the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover. In some ways it was a classic "silly season" story, but as can be seen from the linked post, many really wanted to celebrate. And…
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Continue reading →: Change? Yes, we can. But will we?
120 Labour MPs plan to stand down at next general election | Politics | The Observer. This could be good news. In our parliamentary democracy, unbounded by constitutional limits, everything depends on the quality of our Members of Parliament. Leaving the expenses scandal aside, the present crew has failed us…
THE LAST DITCH
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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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