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Continue reading →: Balls
Link: Why you can’t believe a word Ed Balls says – Telegraph. In politics, any truth the electorate would not like is only ever told by accident or indirectly. Ed Balls exposed the true spirit of the Labour Party this week in two telling ways. Firstly, his instinctive response to…
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Continue reading →: He who lives by the sword…
Link: ‘Deadline to quit for NY\’s Spitzer’. How ridiculous that the personal sexual conduct of a politician should be a matter of public discussion. Isn’t that right, Mr Spitzer?
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Continue reading →: This makes me so angry!
Greed: Medium Gluttony: Very High Wrath: Very High Sloth: High Envy: Very Low Lust: High Pride: Medium h/t Devil’s Kitchen Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
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Continue reading →: ‘Britishness’ day and oaths to the Queen urged
Link: ‘Britishness’ day and oaths to the Queen urged – Telegraph. As a young lawyer in Nottingham, I administered the oath of allegiance to many a new citizen from the Indian sub-continent and was always grateful that – as an Englishman by birth and a republican – I did not…
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Continue reading →: 3rd Anniversary “celebration”
Link: Moulin de Mougins. I have just realised that I shall be dining at one of the great restaurants of France on my blog’s third anniversary next week. The creations of mâitre-chef Alain Llorca, worthy successor to the legendary Roger Vergé, should make for a suitable celebration. Sadly I shall…
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Continue reading →: The death of parliament
Link: EU Referendum: The death of parliament. Dr. Richard North expresses how many of us feel today. One doesn’t need to be a Eurosceptic to feel betrayed. One doesn’t even need to oppose the Lisbon Treaty per se. This treaty is the EU Constitutional Treaty by another name. We were…
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Continue reading →: Democracy?
Link: MPs reject referendum on EU treaty – Telegraph. Apparently not.
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Continue reading →: No surprises here…
Link: The Political Compass. Click on image to enlarge. Follow the link to take the test yourself.
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Continue reading →: The American recipe for an English accent*
Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? h/t Andrew Ian Dodge * How can it be an "accent?" The clue is in the name of the language, guys!
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Continue reading →: Blogging milestone
Link: The Last Ditch. My last post was my 600th since the Last Ditch moved over to Typepad in September of 2006. I racked up 525 posts on the original version of the blog, starting with the first one on March 15, 2005. It has been a long haul and…
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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A little bird tweeted in my ear that it was time to come over and see how things are.