-
Continue reading →: I wish I’d thought of that…
Link: Choice Cuts: Can I see a slippery slope to a socialist dictatorship?. STASI. Tee-hee.
-
Continue reading →: Normal service resumed
Thanks to James and Guthrum who let me know about their problem viewing this site with Internet Explorer, the issue has now been resolved. I removed a couple of rogue widgets and all is well. Thank you, gentlemen.
-
Continue reading →: Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible
My apologies to users of Internet Explorer who are receiving a strange error message when accessing my site. It seems to be OK with Safari and Firefox. I don’t know about other browsers. I have filed a support request with Typepad. Sorry.
-
Continue reading →: Betrayal of a generation | the Daily Mail
Link: Betrayal of a generation | the Daily Mail. The basic unit of a healthy society is not the State. It is not “the community.” It is the family. For the whole of my life, the Labour Party has been the enemy of the family. Any arrangement for the raising…
-
Continue reading →: The tiny airline spy that spots bombers in the blink of an eye | News | This is London
Link: The tiny airline spy that spots bombers in the blink of an eye | News | This is London. This is, to say the least, an unwise application of technology. Fanatics going, as they believe, directly to Paradise may well be no more stressed than an innocent nervous flyer.…
-
Continue reading →: Give City’s bonuses to the poor, urges Hain | Uk News | News | Telegraph
Link: Give City’s bonuses to the poor, urges Hain | Uk News | News | Telegraph. Who is this moron? I see he doesn’t suggest that the peoples’ heroes should give up their earnings. But he thinks the City’s top flight, who generate much of the tax which feeds New…
-
Continue reading →: Show of Hands
This, apparently, is number 6 in the HMV download charts. Give it a listen, playing close attention to the lyrics. That this should be popular gives me hope that England may yet awaken. It is for sale at iTunes and HMV. H/T Andrew Ian Dodge
-
Continue reading →: Thomas Paine Bicentenary Celebrations
Ellee Seymour very kindly sent me the following story from her local paper, the Eastern Daily Press, which appeared on 26th January. Plans are moving forward to commemorate the bicentenary of the death of one of Norfolk’s most famous sons. Town leaders in Thetford have put together a committee to…
-
Continue reading →: Councillor Terry Kelly
Link: Councillor Terry Kelly: BLOGGING FOR SOME STRANGE KIND OF PEOPLE – IT’S LIFE BUT NOT AS WE’VE KNOWN IT. If you haven’t found Cllr Terry’s Blog, you really should visit. Nowhere will you find better evidence of the intellectual degeneracy that is the modern Labour Party. Terry, whose witty…
-
Continue reading →: Comments moderation off
Various readers have gently complained about the comments moderation system. As an experiment, I have turned it off. Please enjoy responsibly!
THE LAST DITCH
Your blogger
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.”
Socials
Subscribe
Receive content by email
Latest comments
I’m going to go millennial and rent what I need when I need it. If that doesn’t work for me,…
My cars are just tools although I do get attached to them and have fond memories of a couple of…
I did get to ride in her and she did add cachet for me with my neighbours by being in…
It would have been easy to fulfil an open desire so why keep it secret? Surely the whole advantage of…
ARCHIVES
Blogspot Archive Mar 2005 – Sep 2006
TypePad/WordPress Archives Sep 2006 – date
The Great American Road Trip of 2013
The Great American Road Trip Posts
First post (in case you want to read it from the beginning)
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…