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Continue reading →: 2008 Witanagemot Club Political Blogging Awards
Link: The Witanagemot Club – 2008 Witanagemot Club Political Blogging Awards – In the Spotlight – News. Many apologies for my temporary absence from blogging. My colleagues and I have been helping some clients and their business partners generate substantial "invisible earnings" for a number of Western governments to tax…
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Continue reading →: While on the subject of Blogpower
Link: Pageflakes – Tom Paine’s The Blogpower Express. …Colin Campbell of Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe has kindly volunteered to assist with the updating of the Blogpower Express which, due to my other commitments was shamefully behind the times. Already he has made a great difference. Do follow the link to…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower Roundup
Link: Question That: Seen Elsewhere (7). I hope that the work project which has taken over my life of late will conclude today or tomorrow so that normal blogging can resume. In the meantime, courtesy of Ian_QT at Question That, here is the latest Blogpower Roundup. Enjoy.
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Continue reading →: David Davis: fool or hero?
Link: Analysis: David Davis’ hollow victory in Haltemprice by-election – Telegraph. The received political and media wisdom about David Davis’s "one issue by-election" says more about the commentators than the man himself. To a cynical, unprincipled careerist (and a journalist accustomed to reporting on such creatures) Davis’s actions make no…
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Continue reading →: Elfin safety school
I spent yesterday in the company of students and parents at my daughter’s school. She has just completed her "A" Level exams and it was her last day. As this signalled the end of a major expense as well as a rite of passage for my daughter, I was very…
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Continue reading →: Lunch
Hand on closed book, I look through smoked glass at planks lit by watery Moscow sunshine. My book and my meal are both finished; my coffee cup is drained. To my left a couple speak earnest Russian. They laugh. I glance and smile wryly. Their eyes shine. In their mutual…
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Continue reading →: Justice must be seen to be done?
Link: Jean Charles de Menezes inquest: 44 police officers granted anonymity – Telegraph. If these policemen were employed by a totalitarian state (e.g. Zimbabwe) our press would call them a "death squad." Here, in our democracy, no-one even seems surprised that, not only will they face no criminal charges for…
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Continue reading →: UK Libertarians in SL
Yesterday Bag and I had the idea of opening a UK Libertarian Party office in Second Life. "No sooner said than done, so acts your man of worth;" within a couple of hours we had clearance from the party’s Director of Communications, I had identified premises, Bag had rented them…
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Continue reading →: Good news!
This past week has been an excellent one for me. Firstly Ms Paine the Elder achieved superb results in her second year exams at Cambridge University and won another academic prize. Secondly, the Labour Party lost its deposit at Henley, which I have hopes is just the beginning of the…
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Continue reading →: Whose side are the police on?
Link: Frank McCourt, a former soldier, charged for makling a citizens arrest – Telegraph. The linked story illustrates poignantly what has happened to our nation under Labour. There was a time when youths would have feared to act in such a way, because the local community would have dealt with…
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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