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Continue reading →: You can’t trust men in power
Harriet Harman: you can’t trust men in power – Times Online. It had to happen. Even Harriet Harman had to be right about something eventually. Once she realises you can't trust women in power either, she will be approaching wisdom.
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Continue reading →: The right to die? Or the right to kill?
BBC NEWS | Health | Result due in right-to-die case. I follow the discussions on euthanasia with interest, but I am puzzled by the terminology favoured by the media. This lady's "right to die" is not in question, although the religious may say it's morally wrong. Suicide was legalised long…
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Continue reading →: Only 48 Hours Left
Iain Dale's Diary: Only 48 Hours Left to Vote for your Fave Blogs. The virtual booths are closing on the Total Politics blog poll 2009. Do click on the link above and follow the simple instructions to vote. If you can find it in your heart to include the Last…
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Continue reading →: Feedback please
Would you please do me the favour of completing a short survey on your experience here at the Last Ditch? It's only six questions on a single page and will take readers of your calibre mere seconds to complete. Thank you in advance. Click Here to take survey
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Continue reading →: Political gratitude
BBC NEWS | UK | Porritt parting shot at ministers. Time and again, outgoing government employees criticise the administration that employed them. Jonathon Porritt has sucked at the public teat for nine years, without ever a word of criticism, but now he has come over all brave. If the government…
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Continue reading →: M’learned friend on social mobility
On the flight from Shanghai yesterday I almost cheered at the letters page of The Times, which was full of hostile responses to Milburn's odious report, as to which I blogged previously. The best letter was from from a barrister of my own vintage, Nigel Tozzi QC. He wrote; I…
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Continue reading →: A hero you don’t know
FT.com / Comment / Obituaries – Philosopher inspired overthrow of communism. Leszek Kolakowski is not the least of Polish thinkers little known outside his homeland. If you remember him for nothing else remember this simile. "Democratic socialism", he said, is "as contradictory as a fried snowball." RIP, sir.
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Continue reading →: Why the Left doesn’t argue honestly
Obama says recovery depends on healthcare | Markets | US Markets | Reuters. For the sake of argument, let's accept people on the political Left are sincere. Let's forget for the moment our suspicions that many of them use politics to win wealth, power and privilege their meagre talents could…
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Continue reading →: Another Labour lie
Top professions 'operate closed shop to exclude the poor' – Times Online. A government "report" on access to the professions has just been published. It shows that in the last 30 years law, medicine and other professions have become more socially exclusive. So I have blogged myself, from personal observation.…
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Continue reading →: Such a rich nation
In the Labour heartlands in Manchester is "The People's' History Museum," the disingenuous trading name of the National Museum of Labour History. Liberty-minded readers need know no more than that the word "People's" here is used as in "People's Republic". While, as a registered charity, it must purport to be…
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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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