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Continue reading →: New Author
After three years of heavy lifting, with only an occasional guest post here at the Last Ditch, an old friend of mine has expressed an interest in becoming a contributor. He’s a newcomer to blogging, but he is a witty and convivial chap and I think it will suit him.…
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Continue reading →: A landmark in the history of sex
Link: The Poor Mouth: A landmark in the history of sex. I can only agree with James’s comment on the linked post! This is just the sort of stuff to write if you want good stats, without compromising standards!
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Continue reading →: Australia returns a favour
Link: Paedophile who lived in Australia for 56 years sent to UK | UK news | The Guardian. Although this man lived his entire adult life abroad, and committed all his crimes in Australia, this story is a nice illustration of the state of contemporary Britain. Admittedly, in Moscow the…
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Continue reading →: Englishmen abroad
Link: ‘Over-55s \’causing holiday havoc\”. How wonderful that the world is now such a safe place that the Foreign Office has the time and resources to give holiday advice. Has Tony Blair already fixed the Middle East then? Has the Taliban finally surrendered? Is Al-Qaida smashed? Was President Bush’s celebration…
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Continue reading →: Start the Week with an insult
Link: BBC – Radio 4 – Start the Week. Waiting for my transfer to the airport yesterday morning, I listened to Radio 4. What a smug noise that station makes. Archsycophant to the PM, Andrew Marr, was hosting a discussion with Susan Pinker, Simon Russell Beale, Marina Warner and Clay…
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Continue reading →: Happy St Patrick’s Day
I was due to be born on this day but arrived some minutes too late. Perhaps as well, as it seems I am not remotely Irish. You’re 15% Irish You’re not Irish. Not even a wee bit. Not even on St. Patrick’s Day! How Irish Are You?
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Continue reading →: Put young children on DNA list, urge police
Link: Put young children on DNA list, urge police | Society | The Observer. I am not even going to comment on the suggestion in this article. If it is not patently absurd, then Britain is finished. I link to it only to pose a question. Should the police –…
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Continue reading →: Labour’s greatest achievement?
Link: Sinn Fein leaders invited to wedding of top Blair aide: ThePost.ie. Apparently, having snubbed him daily for 10 years, Gordon Brown congratulated Jonathan Powell, as he left Downing Street at the end of the Blair era, on his achievements in Northern Ireland. Powell was Blair’s runner to the IRA/Sinn…
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Continue reading →: Support for Labour hits 25-year low
Link: Support for Labour hits 25-year low – Times Online. Given the devastation wrought to civil liberties, it is amazing to me that anyone still intends to vote Labour. Still, it is encouraging that people are beginning to notice that our rulers may not be entirely on our side. To…
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Continue reading →: Chav Life
As some wax lyrical about the "rescue" of Shannon Matthews and the media congratulate the police, those of us who know the lower reaches of British society wait, smilingly, to hear the truth. I confidently predict the only crime involved will be wasting police time. There is little as complicated…
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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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