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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…
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Continue reading →: Millionaire cheat guilty of assaulting boy | Breaking News | News | Telegraph
Link: Millionaire cheat guilty of assaulting boy | Breaking News | News | Telegraph. A 13-year old boy spits in your face. You grab his lapels and tell him that if he does it again he will regret it. You are charged and convicted of assault. Now why do we…
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Continue reading →: Whither England?
Link: freedomdogs.com – We Shall Fight Them At The Water Cooler. Ouch.
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Continue reading →: Show of Hands at the Royal Albert Hall
Link: Royal Albert Hall | Royal Albert Hall. What a room! It was my first time there and I have to say that the Albert Hall is worth a visit in its own right. Show of Hands put on a good evening’s entertainment too, together with an assortment of guests…
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Continue reading →: Family Party
As I am in England for Easter, we were able – belatedly – to celebrate my 50th birthday together as a family. The picture is of my sister-in-law’s brilliant idea for a birthday cake. It tasted good too and seemed actually to be bigger on the inside than it looked…
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Continue reading →: The end of the road for the Royal Navy
For 200 years, if in doubt as to how to behave, all a member of the Royal Navy had to do was ask himself this question; What would Nelson have done? I think we can safely say that most of the people in this picture are not asking themselves that…
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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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
Maybe they should be legally required to only provide halal to muslims or those that request it. If you are…
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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…