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Continue reading →: A great weekend
Brexit Day went off well. I arrived early at the pub on Whitehall to find it crammed. I bought a drink and made like a hawk. Eventually a seat became vacant and I swooped. I held that perch until my friend joined me and it was time for the official…
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Continue reading →: Brexit Day is here
As we approach midnight CET tonight (11pm in London) this is the song I would be playing in Parliament Square if it were up to me. I shall be there, with an old friend – a former business partner of mine at an international law firm – drinking in an…
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Continue reading →: Roger Scruton
I am not a Conservative by nature. My first political ideas and memberships were on the Left. I was luckily turned from that quite early by personal experience of leftist violence and intimidation. If you’re an essentially kind-hearted chap, it’s hard to align yourself with a “comrade” who is coming…
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Continue reading →: Please read this before you vote
I still don’t know how I will vote today. I do know I won’t vote Labour. Even if you believe in Socialism (and let’s discuss that another time) neither should you. Here’s why. Please do vote. Wherever you place your X today, please let your conscience guide you.
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Continue reading →: NATO: what’s the point?
It was formed as a Three Musketeers style mutual defence alliance. An attack on one was to be treated as an attack on all. The anticipated attack was from the Soviet Union. NATO, with its US led military command based in Brussels, was the key international infrastructure on the Western…
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Continue reading →: Can We Disagree? Cultural and Legal attacks on Diversity of Speech
Video © Ayn Rand Centre UK This is the panel “Can We Disagree? Cultural and Legal attacks on Diversity of Speech” from the event I blogged about yesterday. The speakers are Toby Young, Yaron Brook and Soutiam Goodarzi.
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Continue reading →: People and profits: who would benefit from the end of the city
Video © The Ayn Rand Centre This is a video of one of the talks mentioned in my previous post. If anyone claims to you that the City of London is under-regulated, George Grigoropoulos’s (the first speaker’s) account will arm you with the answer.
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Continue reading →: A Socialist Britain: what are we in for?
I spent today at this seminar co-hosted by the Ayn Rand Institute and the Ayn Rand Centre UK. I am not myself an objectivist but the speakers and the subjects were appealing. It was an interesting afternoon beginning with Yaron Brook’s presentation on the long-standing historic links between anti-capitalism and anti-semitism,…
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Continue reading →: Is Boris playing 4D chess?
LEAVE WINS: Boris Has Played 4D Chess And You Haven’t Realised It | Kipper Central. I was directed to the article linked above by Tcheuchter, a welcome regular visitor here at The Last Ditch, in a comment on my previous post. It's an interesting read from a source I don't…
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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.
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