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Continue reading →: Home again
Speranza did not misbehave once after crossing the English border. I am not prepared to anthropomorphise enough to attribute this to her displeasure at being in Scotland, though she cannot have enjoyed some of the rougher tracks we took. It's rather that she has been on entirely dry roads from…
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Continue reading →: The road south
I spent my last night in Scotland near Dumfries in a pleasant country hotel much enlivened by a Scottish wedding. I have never seen so many blue-white male legs in an evening. Everyone seemed to be having a wonderful time and it's hard not to be happy at a wedding,…
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Continue reading →: Almost Skye
Mossy Young Pretender Glenfinnan Viaduct Towering treason I kept my resolution not to visit Skye this time, but only just. I took Speranza for a last run in the Highlands along the Road to the Isles to the ferry port at Mallaig. It began pleasantly enough but after thirty miles the…
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Continue reading →: A cold, windy place to warm one’s piety
According to Dr Johnson, That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of Iona. There is something moving about the windswept little island just over a mile off the Ross…
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Continue reading →: Old Inverlochy Castle
After Tuesday's automotive excitements and having driven enough miles (more than 100) since the 'reset' to reassure me that all is well again – I decided on a quiet day. I pottered around at 'home' in rainy Achnacarry – only emerging to go shopping. I went to Morrisons in Fort…
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Continue reading →: Glencoe and Invergarry
Speranza back on form in Glencoe Speranza almost spoiled yesterday. Her 'engine management system' was out of sorts and went into the Ferrari equivalent of Windows "safe mode." This switched off her automotive awesomeness so that, for a while, it was like driving a pretty Reliant Robin. I reset the…
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Continue reading →: From Lamesly to Achnacarry via Roman Britain
Today we motored from Lamesly to my base for this week on the shores of Loch Lochy, not far from the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge. My apartment is in the grounds of Achnacarry Castle, seat of the Cameron of that ilk. From here (and very tentatively for the first…
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Continue reading →: Taking the high road
Yesterday Speranza bore me from London to Lamesley near Gateshead where I rested my head in a Goatshed. It's actually a rather smart B&B on a farm, but the name was part of the attraction. On the way we visited the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest – a regular weekend…
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Continue reading →: Next trip in planning stage
Once the final match of the Premier League season has been played at Craven Cottage, I shall be off to the Scottish Highlands for a week. I have no agenda but to drive on wonderful empty, winding roads and – in photographic terms – to "stand in front of more…
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Continue reading →: Vienna & Prague with Joe McNally: The Movie
The organisers made a video slideshow of the best work of the participants in last week's Joe McNally photographic course in Vienna & Prague. It was only temporarily available to us for download but I asked for permission to host it here permanently. Please click this link to view it.
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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