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Continue reading →: Personalities and Politics
Link: Mars Hill: Personalities and Politics. That insufferable, God-bothering little twerp Paul Burgin piously has a go at the Blogfather today for allegedly "making personal attacks" [on the one-eyed Fuehrer of das Schottische Reich] "for electoral gain." I knew that, to expose him, all I would have to do would…
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Continue reading →: Police ‘had no order to shoot de Menezes’
Link: Police 'had no order to shoot de Menezes' – Telegraph. I have two questions today. They acted, according to the commander in charge on the day, without orders. Indeed, they were ordered to "stop". Why then have the killers of Jean-Charles de Menezes not been charged with murder? My…
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Continue reading →: De Menezes firearms chief cries in court
Link: De Menezes firearms chief cries in court – Telegraph. O.F.F.S. Are we sure he wasn’t crying with embarrassment at the way the Met continues to try to blacken the name of the innocent it killed? What on earth does the question of whether, like so many members of the…
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Continue reading →: Crazy People (1990)
Link: Crazy People (1990). Mrs Paine and I were recalling the film "Crazy People" this morning. Older readers will remember it was about a stressed ad executive (Dudley Moore) who enjoys surprising success when his fellow mental patients help him devise such honest slogans as: "Volvos; they’re boxy but they’re…
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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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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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