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Continue reading →: The celebrations get serious…
The Last Ditch at home, on the MacBook Pro where it all begins.
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Continue reading →: Birthday Breakfast
Just once, to begin the celebration of my birthday, Mrs Paine has suspended the normal rules designed to protect my health. It looked so good (despite the inauthentic bratwurst substituting for English bangers) that I thought I might have a Welshcakes Limoncello food blogging moment.
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Continue reading →: Birthday
Today is my 50th birthday and blogging may well be light. Cheers! https://lastditch.typepad.com/Birthday.mov https://lastditch.typepad.com/Birthday2.mov
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Continue reading →: My point exactly
Link: mediocracy: Ring any bells?. Fabian Tassano hits the nail on the head.
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Continue reading →: Very droll, but what about next year?
Blair’s legacy to Brown? He must appear on Comic Relief next year as Rab C. Nesbitt, or be thought dour. h/t Dizzy Thinks
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Continue reading →: Social Justice -v- Justice
Link: University education could cost an arm and leg | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph. A young man grew up in a Labour constituency in the North. None of his ancestors went to university. One grandmother, admittedly, went to teacher training college and taught at a primary school until…
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Continue reading →: Heading home
I am writing this in Zurich airport, while I wait for my connection back home to Moscow. Here’s the view from my seat on the flight here. Normal service will be resumed when I have had a proper night’s sleep.
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Continue reading →: Manchester taxpayer? Here’s where your money goes.
In the world of public sector "investment promotion", some of the money that is taken from businesses in taxes is spent on persuading them to invest again (so as to be taxed again). I hasten to stress that Manchester is by no means the worst culprit. You should see the…
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Continue reading →: Tom Elsewhere (at Conservatives Abroad)
Link: The View From…Moscow at Conservatives Abroad : The View From…. While I continue my hard slog on the Cote d’Azur, there is an article of mine up on the Conservatives Abroad blog. All credit to the Conservative Party that it is willing to give a platform to a dissenting…
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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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