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Continue reading →: A walk in Moscow
Yesterday, Mrs Paine and I ran an errand in town and then walked through Red Square in the afternoon dusk to our favourite place to eat and drink. I took a few photos with my Christmas present to myself and I thought you might like to see them. The building…
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Continue reading →: Trusted Advisor or snitch?
When I joined the legal profession more than 20 years ago, we were trained to regard even a client’s most trivial secret as a sacred trust. So seriously did we take it that we could not even name someone as our client without his or her permission. I have always…
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Continue reading →: Blogpower: Best Posts of 2007 by Blogpower Members – Self Chosen
Link: Blogpower: Best Posts of 2007 by Blogpower Members – Self Chosen. JMB has done a sterling job collating the best posts by Blogpower members in 2007; or at least those their authors believed to be their best. Do please head over to Defending the Blog and check out a…
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Continue reading →: Welcome back, Dr Crippen
Link: NHS Blog Doctor: A Fresh Start. The NHS Blog Doctor, who was so much missed during his blog break that rumours of his death circulated, is back. Welcome, sir. He’s off to a fine fresh start with the linked post: Last Saturday, we had a re-union dinner of a…
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Continue reading →: How do ants know what to do?
Link: TED | Talks | Deborah Gordon: How do ants know what to do? (video). One of the best things on the internet is Ted.com‘s collection of short films of talks to TED Conferences. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together…
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Continue reading →: Burning our money: Pay Crunch
Link: Burning our money: Pay Crunch. As I head back to Eastern Europe energised for a new year of invisible exports on behalf of the City of London, I was amused to read Wat Tyler’s summary of Britain’s current situation. He wittily explains my current sense of political deja vu.…
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Continue reading →: Frappr Maps
This is new site to me, but it looks useful. You can make maps and locate people or places on them for information. Then you can embed them in your blog. This example is of members of Second Life who have decided to identify themselves and their Real Life location.…
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Continue reading →: The dangers of blogging for men
This video is well worth a watch. http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf h/t Theo Spark (click to visit his new blog) and be sure to bookmark it.
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Continue reading →: Best Blogpower Blog Post of 2007
Link: Blogpower: Call for Nominations for Best Blog Post of 2007 by BP members. JMB over at Nobody Important is organising a round up of the best Blogpower posts of 2007. If you are a Blogpower member, head over to the linked post to get the details. I have spent…
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Continue reading →: Why must those people spoil everything?
I missed the Christmas Day "Doctor Who" because I was in New York. I am enough of a Whovian for that to hurt, but I was able to catch the repeat. Sadly, that hurt too. Russell T. Davies claims to be a fan, but he has no compunction about littering…
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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