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Continue reading →: Abducted, abused… survived
Link: Abducted, abused… survived – Times Online. All reason is suspended when dealing with child abduction and paedophilia. I have commented before about society’s much greater concern for abducted blonde girls than others, for example. I did not want to set the hares of racism and sexism running, but it…
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Continue reading →: The Second Life of Blogpower
During the run-up to the Blogpower Awards ceremony last year, many of our bloggers visited Second Life, the virtual world where the ceremony was held. A couple of the visitors from that time are still regulars. However only Bag of Bag’s Rants (a fellow-traveller, rather than a Blogpower member) has…
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Continue reading →: What’s in a name?
After the test drive in Paris, an order has been placed. This is how she will look when she arrives in May. Now the question is what to call her. Please help me decide this important issue by completing my online survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/jsPop.aspx?sm=TrbybkDev3B3s3_2bUFyKk2g_3d_3d
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Continue reading →: Tribute Island
Link: The Best of Second Life: Tribute Island–Wednesday, November 14, 2007 LM of the Day. I was touched to learn that there are memorials in Second Life to the British service men and women who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan. I visited and took these photographs. If you are…
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Continue reading →: Yes, but which city?
Further to my previous post, it seems Paris is the big city for me. There was no question about speedy Mac repairs though… You Belong in Paris Stylish and expressive, you were meant for Paris. The art, the fashion, the wine! Whether you’re enjoying the cafe life or a beautiful…
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Continue reading →: Why I love big cities
The day before yesterday, in Frankfurt airport, I knocked my heavy suitcase onto my briefcase and damaged the screen of my trusty laptop, a MacBook Pro. Struggling with the one corner of the screen which worked, I emailed my secretary to find an Apple dealer in Moscow who could fix…
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Continue reading →: Secret Inquests
Link: Window on the World: INQUEST condemnation. Step by step we move toward a police state. Why would a government want an inquest into a suspicious death to be held in secret using government-nominated lawyers? Might it be, perhaps, that the suspicion in question falls on itself? These are powers…
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Continue reading →: Top US accountability officer quits over job constraints
Link: Top US accountability officer quits over job constraints – Yahoo! News. Perhaps I spoke too soon in lauding the US system of government for allowing its Comptroller General to inform the voting public of the true, dire, state of the nation’s finances. The gentleman in question, David Walker, is…
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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