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Continue reading →: En voyage
If you get out of this blogging habit, it's hard to get back in. Time was, I would have meticulously taken a photo at the start of this trip and then logged each stop. I am more relaxed these days. Sorry. I am on one of my favourite runs –…
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Continue reading →: A libertarian says “think of the children” in calling for less law
Discussions of "sexting" in the media and on websites advising young people and their parents, focus on the risks to teenagers of being coerced, blackmailed or subjected to "revenge porn". There is another, perhaps worse, risk from the criminal justice system. Firstly, the law on this subject is very badly…
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Continue reading →: Of Cowardice in the face of unreason
Our cowardice helped to allow this attack | The Times. I am coming out of retirement as a political blogger for one day to say, firstly, that je suis Charlie. I want to add my small voice to the condemnation of the murders in Paris yesterday. I want to…
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Continue reading →: It’s been a while, Warsaw
Al. Jana Pawla II It's not that my enthusiasm for travel blogging is not as great as it was for the political kind, it's just that I don't travel as much as I think about politics! My latest trip was last weekend, to Poland. I dislike flying these days; mostly…
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Continue reading →: Speranza in another world
It's been a while. My excursions have been short and not particularly blogworthy. Those of you who know I have a soft spot for the virtual reality world known as Second Life may be interested to see that Speranza has arrived there. Here she is with my avatar, parked outside…
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Continue reading →: Home again
Done, dusted Damp start in Epernay this morning I had two martinis and a bottle – not of Gevrey Chambertin – but a very fine Cote Rotie last night to wash down a superb meal. A couple of miserable old Welsh people at the next table gave the staff…
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Continue reading →: In Champagne
In the old days, my late wife and I used to fly home from Poland or Russia, pick up her mum and drive to the South of France for a holiday. Our daughters were not keen on road trips with music selected by 'the elderly' so would fly down and…
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Continue reading →: There was nothing sinister about my radio silence
The trip is going rather well so far. I have not posted only because the wifi in our "villa" (a small word for a rather splendid 13th Century fortified house) was as medieval as the building. I don't want to quibble though. The house was wonderful and my friends and I…
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Continue reading →: The romance of the Alps
I am booked onto an indoctrination course in lieu of penalty points at present, so I drove very carefully to the Eurotunnel Terminal at Folkestone. I am, as they say in football, "on a six pointer." If I pick up another ticket before attending my course I will get back…
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Continue reading →: Tuscany and back
In the early hours of tomorrow morning I set off to drive to Tuscany. My planned route is below. As so often, I am in too much of a hurry and will be whizzing by interesting places rather than exploring them. I need to break the habits of a lifetime…
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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