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Continue reading →: Desert rats
L'Ombre de l'Olivier. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf In the shade of the olive tree blog, there is often a mot juste to be appreciated. I particularly enjoyed the remark that here, in a shipyard, was a sinking Gordon deserting his rat. How glorious too was the PM's wonderful doublespeak; "I take full responsibility…
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Continue reading →: Tourorists?
Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' | UK news | guardian.co.uk. For mercy's sake, New Labour and all your minions. Just go. You have humiliated us enough in the eyes of the world. Our economy lies in tatters after you – as the honourable people still left in…
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Continue reading →: The Baroness and the Badman – a fairy tale
renegadeparent.net | The Baroness and the Badman – a fairy tale. Damn it all. Why are other peoples' blog posts so much better than mine? Note to self: must try harder. Do go and read the whole thing. h/t Bishop Hill
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Continue reading →: How very interesting…
Derek Draper Labour spin doctor does a runner with his computer. – Mirror Images – James Vellacott – Mirror.co.uk. I wonder where that computer is now. Given that Labour has a predilection for confusing state resources with its own, I do hope our security services are not currently cleaning Mr…
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Continue reading →: Professions ‘increasingly dominated by the wealthiest.’ Duh.
Professions 'increasingly dominated by the wealthiest' – Telegraph. …the Government and the professions must "widen the talent pool" if the seven million new professional jobs it estimates will be needed in Britain by 2020 were to be filled… Oh really? And I suppose that the politicisation, dumbing-down and general degradation…
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Continue reading →: Shame on us all
Rachel from north London: Shame on you. Look at the face of the police officer in the film as he casually slaps a young woman in the face with the back of his hand. Have you seen such an expression before? The casual, confident thuggery? The absolute sense of entitlement?…
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Continue reading →: Just for a change, more stealth taxes
The Taxpayers' Alliance has created a "green calculator" to help you work out how much you pay in useless eco-taxes. This is my personal result. It ignores any I may (though I doubt it) be paying on flights from Russia to places outside the EU. Nor does it account for…
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Continue reading →: A suite on Piccadilly
Tory Bear – right-wing political gossip…: Suite 35. Blogger Tory Bear has done some of that "fact-checking" stuff journalists talk about far more often than they do. That Derek Draper is somewhat estranged from Truth hardly needs repeating. That his breathtaking contempt for the intelligence of the electorate was his…
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Continue reading →: Where’s Tom?
Books that influence me as a politician and dad | Tom Watson MP. Given recent events, much amusement has been had with number 15 on Tom Watson's list of books that have "influenced, interested or amused" him. It has even been suggested that he's making a play to be mentioned…
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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