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Continue reading →: PJ O’Rourke on Death
Link: PJ O’Rourke: Death’s homework | Comment is free | The Guardian. It had to happen. An interesting article at the Guardian’s "Comment is Free" site. However, PJ O’Rourke may have misjudged his audience. In reacting to being diagnosed with cancer, he writes God created a free universe. He could…
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Continue reading →: Switzerland again
This weekend I am in Switzerland for a motor tour organised by my firm. Various of my partners and our clients met at Interlaken to spend a couple of days driving around beautiful scenery in a variety of exotic and/or delightful cars. Today we lunched at Meiringen, which Sherlock Holmes…
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Continue reading →: Pastures new
I have a new job and it is not (only) Russia any more. I shall confinue to live in Moscow, but it is now entirely by choice. It could as easily be London, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Shanghai or Ho Chi Minh City. At this depressing juncture in our…
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Continue reading →: Photo Competition for Freedom not Fear
Link: Old Holborn: Photo Competition. I am a keen if not particularly ept photographer and would love to take part in this. I shall not be in Britain on the day, so can only urge you all to follow the link above and have a go. The event is to…
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Continue reading →: World markets “slump?”
Link: World markets slump as panic grips the banking sector | Business | guardian.co.uk. I love the way the Guardian’s journalists slag bloggers off as irresponsible and then write such tosh as the linked article. If I jumped off a cliff, fell 5% of the height and landed on a…
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Continue reading →: The Brown Jinx strikes again?
I seem to remember our PM backed the Paulson plan?
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Continue reading →: Congratulations, you own another bank
Link: Financial crisis: Bradford & Bingley to be nationalised by Treasury – Telegraph. I have never been happier to be a Russian taxpayer. We pay 13% flat tax and the Kremlin is talking of cuts to stimulate the economy in the face of the financial crisis. On the other hand,…
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Continue reading →: Jean-Charles; some hope at last?
Link: Jean Charles de Menezes shooting: Inquest begins – Telegraph. According to the Telegraph today The Metropolitan police's firearms and surveillance teams have hired separate lawyers and it is understood they may attack each other over aspects of the failed operation. In criminal law circles (as these police officers will…
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Continue reading →: Meeting Vittoria’s family
I am sorry for the lack of blogging. I have had a long run of beautiful, but internet-free, hotels. Since last Tuesday, I have driven from the North of England to Italy and back, via France Switzerland, Germany and now France again. I am still "on the road", having stopped…
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Continue reading →: Support for Kez?
Link: Where is the support for Kez? : Miserable Old Fart | The English Parliament – Building Jerusalem in England. It’s a bit rough to suggest that those of us who supported Bloggerheads when it was threatened with libel by oligarch Usmanov, are hypocrites because we haven’t also supported a…
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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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