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Continue reading →: Government to unveil rape law reforms
Link: Government to unveil rape law reforms | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited. On my reading list before my first year studying law was a great little book called Straight and Crooked Thinking by Robert Thouless. It did me more good than any other book I read at that time.…
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Continue reading →: untitled post 5279
I am delighted to say that there is now a TypePad “web app” for the iPhone that allows me to post to the Last Ditch on the move. This is my first such posting.
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Continue reading →: So not a “low level administrative error” then?
Link: Top officials decided to release bank details – Telegraph. What will voters make of the fact that the Government sought to make a scapegoat of an innocent junior employee? British voters may not care about civil liberties, cronyism or even corruption, but I suspect this will offend their sense…
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Continue reading →: DARLING SENDS 25 MILLION BANK RECORDS TO NIGERIAN DOCTOR
Link: The Daily Mash – DARLING SENDS 25 MILLION BANK RECORDS TO NIGERIAN DOCTOR. The always-amusing Daily Mash finds the humour in what is currently outraging the naive across the British blogosphere. To me, the incompetence of the State is a "given." As most of my fellow-citizens seem inclined to…
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Continue reading →: An Englishman’s Castle: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey! As Lord Emsworth would say.
Link: An Englishman’s Castle: Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey! As Lord Emsworth would say.. The Englishman speaks for England: As I lean over the gate watching my Gloucester Old Spots fighting and squealing over the last apple in the swill trough my mind sometimes is drawn to Westminster….
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Continue reading →: Met to create politically correct mascots
Link: Met to create politically correct mascots – Telegraph. I am offended. I have been racially and sexually insulted. The person who said this police mascot is "too white" is a racist scumbag. How "white" would be acceptable to you, my friend? I am white and I am proud. Of…
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Continue reading →: Lawyers against dictatorship
Link: Pakistan | Lawyers against the general | Economist.com. I have two guaranteed ways to provoke hostile comments here. I can mention Jean Charles de Menezes or I can mention that I am a lawyer. Many feel aggrieved that the legal profession in Britain has not done more to resist…
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Continue reading →: Guy Fawkes’ blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: £24,000,000,000 of Public Money is a Matter of Public Interest
Link: Guy Fawkes’ blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: £24,000,000,000 of Public Money is a Matter of Public Interest. Guido is right. This is a matter of public interest. To keep the summary of the Northern Rock investment memorandum now in circulation on the internet "out there" despite…
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Continue reading →: Second Life Remembrance
I struggled with my connection, but managed to be present at the Second Life Cenotaph for the two minute silence this morning. FreeJersey Writer (Free Jersey Blog) and Bag Writer ("Bag’s Rants") were also there. The SL build of the Cenotaph is impressive and stands alone on a poppy shaped…
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Continue reading →: Lawyer Jokes
Link: Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe: Lawyer Jokes – Tom Paine Look Away. I used to carry a database of hundreds of these jokes in my old Psion, so that if someone started telling them, I could outgun him. So Colin’s collection today has only one I haven’t seen before –…
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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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