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The ghoulish dishonesty of Jimmy Kimmel – spiked
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Continue reading →: The ghoulish dishonesty of Jimmy Kimmel – spikedLiberal America is finally waking up to the cruelty of cancel culture. Source: The ghoulish dishonesty of Jimmy Kimmel – spiked All over the world, ordinary people are waking up to the true meaning of “woke.” Regular folks, “normies” if you will, have watched their leftist friends, family and neighbours…
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Continue reading →: A Faithful Archive: 19 Years of Blogging HistoryThanks to the “Happiness Engineers” of WordPress who fixed (and improved) their TypePad import tool, the entire back catalogue of The Last Ditch has now safely arrived here. Many individual photos have been successfully imported. I was not expecting that, based on what I had read. I think that was…
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Continue reading →: Unite the KingdomI didn’t take part but I should have. I am not fit enough at the moment, alas. Apart from missing the chance to stand with the decent working people of Britain, I also missed a marvellous photo opportunity. As is evidenced by this splendid image by my West London neighbour…
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Continue reading →: Charlie’s death must have some meaning. We need to decide carefully what it will be.Such is the power of social media that I learned of the shooting of Charlie Kirk almost immediately. My feed blew up. I saw a live feed of him shot and bleeding that I will find hard to forget. Then my feed blew up again with leftists celebrating his death.…
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Continue reading →: The Left’s Reign challenged: Can Trump and Farage Defeat Entrenched Ideologies?A friend send me a photo of yet another paywalled article from The Times. It’s written by Gerard Baker and entitled:- A lefty in the White House? That’ll be Trump The thesis is that President Trump is as statist as the American Left. Sure, he’s vastly superior on personal liberty…
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Are you right there, Father Ted?
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Continue reading →: Are you right there, Father Ted?Father Ted is one of my favourite comedy shows. It’s eccentric, mild-mannered and gently satirical – a wonderful piece of work. It was written by two Irishmen and performed by a selection of others. It’s a jewel of Irish culture. This is no small claim. However, it was made by…
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Continue reading →: Beware the “dank right”The post critiques the influence of identity politics on rational debate, warning against hypocrisy and extremism from both sides. It highlights concerns about the MAGA movement’s conspiracy theories and the regression to status-based rights in academia. Emphasizing the importance of adherence to Reason and Dr. Martin Luther King’s values, it…
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Why I Value My Blog: Lessons from 20 Years of Writing
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Continue reading →: Why I Value My Blog: Lessons from 20 Years of WritingTypepad Support has just supplied a full set of export files. For now the old site still works, but this link will break on September 30th. With archives in hand, I no longer need worry about the imminent demise of their servers. I respect their professionalism. If I had a…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to the new home of The Last DitchThe Last Ditch has been hosted on Typepad.com since forever but the company just suddenly announced it’s closing down on September 30th. I’ve moved my domain thelastditch.org to WordPress. Until Typepad closes you can access all the old content at https://lastditch.typepad.com/lastditch/ I will be attempting to migrate all the old…
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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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