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Continue reading →: Parents must support obesity fight, says minister
Link: Parents must support obesity fight, says minister | Health | SocietyGuardian.co.uk. Only in New Labour’s fairyland would a Minister call on parents for "support" in looking after their childrens’ health. In the real world, it is parents who take responsibility for their childrens’ well-being. Any government intervention is as…
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Continue reading →: Trailer
The Last Ditch is an ever so humble commentary blog. It is rare that I have the chance to break an original story. However, over dinner last week, I heard an account of a Labour Party luminary being humiliated and having his corrupt gains trashed by members of his own…
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Continue reading →: Hospital deaths scandal
Link: BBC NEWS | Health | Hospital bug deaths ‘scandalous’. I am glad I didn’t blog immediately about this. The reactions are more interesting than the story itself. That NHS hospitals are filthy is no surprise to any Briton. The NHS is one of the three largest employers on Earth…
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Continue reading →: ‘Legalise drugs’ urges top officer
Link: ‘\’Legalise drugs\’urges top officer’. I cordially detest Richard Brunstrom. He has done more to destroy the quality of life in North Wales than anyone outside the Labour Party. However, he is right about this. The substances that a person chooses to ingest should be entirely a matter for him.…
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Continue reading →: Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t
Link: Sir John Bourn, guardian of the public purse. In three years he’s run up bills of £365k on travel and £27k on meals. Then there’s opera, grand prix, polo … | Whitehall | Guardian Unlimited Politics. I confidently expect this to be one of my more unpopular posts. As…
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Continue reading →: Gordon Brown’s psychological flaws will come back to haunt him – Telegraph
Link: Gordon Brown’s psychological flaws will come back to haunt him – Telegraph. Heffer’s article is potboiler stuff, but am I alone in being delighted by this comment from a Telegraph reader? Brown has not changed one iota from the devious, untrustworthy teenager who arrived with me at Edinburgh University.…
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Continue reading →: Family defend Sir Kingsley Amis from slurs
Link: Family defend Sir Kingsley Amis from slurs – Telegraph. Sir Kingsley’s family should relax. Slinging abuse, particularly accusations of "discrimination", is what passes for debate on the Left. This, from people whose entire world view is based on the discriminatory notion of advancing one social class to the detriment…
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Continue reading →: ‘Plans to outlaw inciting gay hate’
Link: ‘Plans to outlaw inciting gay hate’. This Government’s affection for the crime of incitement is one of the best indicators of its contempt for the individual. If I "incite" you to hate Joe, Jack or Jane, do you have no choice in the matter? I may tell you why…
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Continue reading →: Not flash, just gutless
Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | Reaction: Election announcement. As ever, Alex Salmond expresses himself most pithily. What a shame his undoubted political talents are wasted on petty provincialism. Gordon Brown …ran away at the first whiff of grapeshot. Those whom the gods seeks to destroy they first render ridiculous,…
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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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