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Continue reading →: The first UK Libertarian Party New Year
UK Libertarian Party: A first UK Libertarian Party New Year. Click on the link to read a New Year message from the Libertarian Party's chairman.
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Continue reading →: Government incompetence is a good thing
FT.com | Willem Buiter’s Maverecon | In praise of government incompetence. Let me begin 2009 with a glimmer of hope. I have been unkind in the past years about British academics. Reports from the front line (the Misses Paine are currently studying at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics respectively)…
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Continue reading →: Patriotism -vs- Nationalism – Part 3: The Dark Side
Patriotism has been out of fashion in Britain since I was a young man. The British Empire confused matters horribly. To be proud of our nation was somehow thought to approve its role in establishing the biggest empire in history. It became essential for "right-minded" individuals to disassociate themselves from…
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Continue reading →: The ex-missionary position
Home for retired missionaries loses council grant… because it won't ask residents if they are lesbians | Mail Online. Having lived in former totalitarian states, I know how to handle this kind of thing. My language teacher in Poland was in her 70's but the photo on her ID card…
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Continue reading →: A tour of my virtual lands
In the lull after Christmas and before Mrs P’s next treatment, I have had the chance to spend some time in my virtual domains in Second Life. I know this leaves some readers cold, but I find the whole concept of virtual worlds interesting. I think they foreshadow the future…
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Continue reading →: Money in motion -vs- profit
Busiest Boxing Day is unlikely to save High Street slump – Telegraph. What hope is there for British capitalism when journalists in quality newspapers don't know the difference between turnover and profit? At Selfridges in London's Oxford Street, the store recorded its most profitable hour in the store's 100-year history…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to post-Christmas
How did I survive without nanny's advice? | Hugo Rifkind – Times Online. Hugo Rifkind is on amusing form. But why do our satirists like "Nanny" so much as a metaphor for an overbearing ruler? Most of us didn't have a nanny or know anyone who did. And doesn't "nanny"…
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Continue reading →: Thank you, Mrs Paine
I have so many things to thank her for, but the latest are these, well-chosen, Christmas gifts. Merry Christmas one and all.
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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday, Miss Paine the Younger
The younger Miss Paine shares her birthday with Jesus and so for 19 years, in our home, a part of this day has been set aside for her. This is her cake. Happy birthday, MPTY.
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Continue reading →: Christmas Greetings
All best wishes for a merry, festive Christmas and a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year from me and my Second Life "avatar", LastDitch Writer.
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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