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Continue reading →: Fund manager raises alarm over dropping of BAE inquiry
Link: Fund manager raises alarm over dropping of BAE inquiry | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics. I am an English-qualified commercial lawyer, practising in Moscow. My government’s Christmas present to me has been to make my work more difficult. Western clients negotiating joint ventures with Russian companies are anxious…
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Continue reading →: Baby dies and five are infected as bacteria strain infests neonatal unit
Link: Telegraph | News | Baby dies and five are infected as bacteria strain infests neonatal unit. Imagine the scandal if this tragedy were to occur at a private hospital. “Our NHS” kills with impunity however. Bill Bryson once wrote that Britain is one place where Communism might actually have…
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Continue reading →: Tagged: The 7 best things I have done this year
James Higham has tagged me, so I must do my duty. I am not tagging anyone else though. These things have to end somewhere and it might as well be with me. Reading them over, I can’t see why anyone else would be interested as they are all terribly personal.…
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Continue reading →: Bloggers not the equivalent of Tom Paine
Link: The Leaf Chronicle – www.theleafchronicle.com – Clarksville, TN. It is good to know that my namesake is so valued in Clarksville, Tennessee – even if that esteem is manifested in a desire to defend his shade from the accusation (made by Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine) that…
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Continue reading →: How Labour buys its votes | the Daily Mail
Link: How Labour buys its votes | the Daily Mail. Conservative leader Dave Cameron may at least be relied upon not to indulge in such corrupt practices. He doesn’t even like his voters.
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Continue reading →: Dr David Haslam
Link: National Obesity Forum – Dr David Haslam. Follow the link to see the face of the affable family doctor who believes the State has the right to assault your child. Speaking of a government survey on childhood obesity which has failed to gather enough data to be useful, David…
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Continue reading →: TIME Person of the Year: You
Link: TIME.com: Person of the Year: You — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1. I love America because its people are – on average – so positive. To a jaundiced European eye, it may appear that in making “You” the Time “Person of the Year”, the magazine’s editors are overstating…
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Continue reading →: Labour donor files shredded – Sunday Times – Times Online
Link: Labour donor files shredded – Sunday Times – Times Online. It seems that some of our leaders are more accomplished at covering their tracks than others. One wonders where they learn such skills. Is there a school somewhere?
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Continue reading →: Blair refuses to back Levy in Labour’s cash for honours scandal
Link: Telegraph | News | Blair refuses to back Levy in Labour’s cash for honours scandal. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that nothing is more important than the care with which you select your friends. My heart goes out to Lord Levy as he…
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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