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Continue reading →: A damn close run thing
Poll: What's the best TV show of the decade 2000-09? | Media | guardian.co.uk. Beaten into second place (click to enlarge) but the Guardianistas can hardly enjoy the fact that their most-hated TV show came second with 43.3% of the votes. Thank you to all those readers who voted.
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Continue reading →: Back in the PMR
Parliament of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Pridnestrovie). Via A Fistful of Euros, I discovered the existence of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (aka Transnistria). Its website is, as he says; Like glimpsing an alternate universe where the USSR survived into the age of the internet It's hard to believe the whole…
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Continue reading →: War and Peace
What I Learned From My Old Dad – Washington Rebel. Do please click the above link to read a very touching piece about "Washington Rebel's" father's experiences on Omaha Beach, and how they affected the rest of his life. He explained to me how do-gooders and reformers were little Stalins…
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Continue reading →: If there are Libertarians here, they must be everywhere…
North West Libertarians: How did you know?. I am honoured to have been invited to contribute to the least likely blog in British politics (if you've lived there you'll know why) – North West Libertarians. The link above will take you to my first post there.
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Continue reading →: Guardian TV poll: let’s keep up the pressure
Poll: What's the best TV show of the decade 2000-09? | Media | guardian.co.uk. Come on, ladies and gentlemen, please click on the link above and infuriate the Guardianistas who are posting such exasperated comments as; Top Gear is not fit to grace any list that has the likes of…
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Continue reading →: Annoy a Guardianista; vote now!
Poll: What's the best TV show of the decade 2000-09? | Media | guardian.co.uk. The Grauniad is having a poll on "the best TV show of the decade" and the results are annoying its precious journalists. Monday 2pm: we are aware that there has been some *ahem* multiple voting and…
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Continue reading →: More categories of lawful killing?
Commentary: The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care – Psychiatric Times My post last Thursday on the emotive issue of "assisted suicide" predictably attracted many comments. One of my readers forwarded me a piece by Gerald Warner from the Daily Telegraph "blog" section. One of the…
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Continue reading →: An elegy in an Aston Martin
This film perfectly captures how I feel. Not just about cars you understand, but about my life and my country's future. Our islands are now in the hands of people who don't "get" this sublime physical expression of the human spirit. A spirit of striving, of freedom, of adventure and…
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Continue reading →: Thanks for the feedback
More than 50 readers were kind enough to reply to my questionnaire. I think there may be a problem (as always with blogging) that this was a self-selected group of enthusiasts as they were far kinder than I would have been myself. I shall ponder and seek to improve. The…
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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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