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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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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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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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