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Continue reading →: Where’s the meat, Harman?
Link: Harriet’s Blog » A particular pleasure to meet Janice Gregory AM in Wales. Isn’t it supposed to be the amateur blogosphere that is full of people boring on about trivia? This woman is a minister, with her own "website team," SpAds and spin-doctors. Yet here she is banging on…
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Continue reading →: What is the point of blogging?
Why am I still here? As I watched the British prisoners suck down to the murderous pixie who leads Iran, my reasons for political blogging died. Britain’s educationalists, for so long more dangerous than any external enemy, have triumphed. Those young sailors and marines displayed the cultural cringe that must…
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Continue reading →: Enough quizzes already
You are Lex Luthor Lex Luthor 100% Magneto 80% Dr. Doom 80% Apocalypse 76% Venom 71% Kingpin 68% Mr. Freeze 67% The Joker 63% Green Goblin 62% Two-Face 62% Dark Phoenix 58% Juggernaut 54% Catwoman 49% Poison Ivy 38% Mystique 30% Riddler 14% A brilliant businessman on a quest for…
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Continue reading →: Another quiz
Your Personality is Very Rare (INTJ) Your personality type is logical, uncompromising, independent, and nonconformist. Only about 3% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 4% of all men. You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging. How Rare Is Your Personality? Another hat-tip to Adelaide…
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Continue reading →: Which Superhero am I?
You are Green Lantern Green Lantern 85% Iron Man 75% Spider-Man 65% Supergirl 60% Hulk 55% The Flash 50% Wonder Woman 45% Superman 45% Robin 40% Catwoman 25% Batman 20% Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz I am…
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Continue reading →: The Thomas Paine Society – An Introduction
Link: The Thomas Paine Society – An Introduction. I never thought I would be a member of any organisation that had Michael Foot as its President and Tony Benn as its Vice-President, but (in my real name) I now am. Still, it’s hard to dislike people who treasure Tom Paine’s…
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Continue reading →: My mysterious offshore reader
Link: Recent Visitor Map [The Last Ditch, by Tom Paine]. OK, I give up. Who is this regular visitor? And how come his Internet Service Provider is in Canada?
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Continue reading →: Remembering the opening shot
Link: The Blogspot Last Ditch Archives: The opening shot. I have just realised that I failed to notice the second anniversary of this blog on March 15th. Coincidentally, that was also the 25th anniversary of my qualifying as a solicitor (a word I have hardly used in 15 years outside…
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Continue reading →: Petition to: honour the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, by naming a ship in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy "HMS Iron Lady".
Link: Petition to: honour the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, by naming a ship in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy "HMS Iron Lady". Go on. Click the link. You know you want to.
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Continue reading →: Heroes vs Victims
Link: FT.com / World – Iran debacle shows failure to understand the British services. The linked article is behind a subscription, but even if you can’t read the whole thing the following quote makes my point; Mr Browne and the MoD have fallen into the trap – too commonplace today…
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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The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
You cannot have a reasonable argument about any of this because we are not allowed to make statements that could…