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Continue reading →: Adventures in MittelEuropa
I have done my route planning for our next tour. I am going to drive Speranza to Vienna. I plan to arrive there on April 13 for a photography course with Joe McNally. We will cross to the Continent via the Eurotunnel on the morning of April 11 and drive…
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Continue reading →: Recent excursions #3
During my recent trip to Vegas I took the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon for the third time. I flew there by helicopter, landing in the bottom for "champagne" and a photo-opportunity. The Colorado River leaves the Grand Canyon, muddily Posing with my second favourite type of machine On…
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Continue reading →: Recent excursions #2
Three friends and I were on a "boys' week out" in Las Vegas last week. I was able to repair one of the omissions from the Great American Road Trip of 2013 when we visited Death Valley. This must be one of the most photogenic places on Earth. Photographer at…
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Continue reading →: Recent excursions #1
I drove from London to the Cote d'Azur and back two weeks ago, staying with friends in one of my favourite villages in the world, Mougins. I met up with other friends at the international real estate event called MIPIM, which takes place every year in Cannes. Dining in Burgundy…
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Continue reading →: A new beginning
Thanks for all the kind comments on my last post. To be clear, I have only given up political blogging. Having made my case ad nauseam for nine years, it's time to move on. I have begun to redesign the blog accordingly. I think I will need more radical change…
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Continue reading →: Goodbye and good luck
You cannot, as the man said, step in the same river twice. I was away from Britain for 20 years. The Britain I returned to was not the Britain I left. Even though I had visited often, kept in touch with friends and family and followed political developments assiduously while…
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Continue reading →: The limits of law
Many things wrong with society can be explained by misunderstandings of the nature and purpose of law. Many see it as nothing more than rules handed down from above and think all that matters is the quality and intent of the ruler. In debates about democracy, such thinking is revealed…
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Continue reading →: Free speech
Is this what our law has come to? A Muslim extremist linked to Woolwich killer Michael Adebowale was jailed for five years and four months today (Weds) for glorifying the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in a series of YouTube videos. Royal Barnes, 23, was filmed by his veiled wife…
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Continue reading →: Breaking News
I have nothing constructive to say on Ukraine. You may imagine, given my years living in Moscow where this blog began, and given the news from former colleagues in my old firm's Kiev office, that I am pretty depressed by the news. I have spent my years since I left…
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Continue reading →: A British divorce
Judge overrides prenup as Bob the Builder tycoon's daughter divorces | Law | The Guardian. Frankie Limata married into the wealthy Luckwell family, which is in the film business. The marriage did not "work out" as people casually say these days. Love flew out the window in the course of…
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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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