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Continue reading →: Out and about in NYC
Friday morning began at our HQ in Battery Park. After a briefing we moved to the area around Ground Zero. Our tutors encouraged us to approach people to take their photographs and I struggled all day with my English reserve. When told we were students sent out to do street…
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Continue reading →: New York state of mind
So far, it’s all been fun. Speranza is still clearing customs but I don’t need her yet as I am beginning my photography course in NYC this afternoon. Last night I went out for drinks with an Austrian-American friend who divides his time between Vienna and Virginia but happened to…
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Continue reading →: So far to travel, so much to learn
The great road trip begins tomorrow when I fly to New York to take part in a National Geographic photography course. Speranza is currently being subjected to an x-ray examination by US Customs. I hope to push the big red start button, deo volenti, next Monday. In the meantime,…
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Continue reading →: A Young Thatcherite’s T-shirt
This young chap was sitting near me at the Freedom Association's funeral day gathering for Thatcherites of all parties (and none). As his T-shirt makes clear, when the enemies of freedom prefer state direction to the market, they are supplanting the free choices of all with the decisions of a…
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Continue reading →: My view of St Paul’s
This was my view (click to enlarge) as I awaited, amid a friendly crowd, the arrival of Margaret's earthly remains at the West Door of St Paul's cathedral. The press has commented on the innovative three cheers she received as she left the cathedral. Not so many mentioned the boos…
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Continue reading →: The Left’s view of human civilisation
When it comes down it it, they just don't like us humans very much do they? And before you tell me he makes valid environmental points with great talent, yes I agree. But his nasty character is not called "aspects of man", he's called "Man". Which makes the artist…
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Continue reading →: Hope’s funeral
I promised myself long ago that, just as my grandfather stood in the rainy streets of London to honour Sir Winston Churchill as his funeral procession passed, so I would for Margaret's. He loved Churchill for much the same reason that I loved her. Hope. In dark days, when our…
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Continue reading →: The Thatcher Test
Sands Media Services: Thatcher: Regionals capture the mood. Though she presented her first Cabinet with a book by Hayek and told them "this is our programme", Margaret Thatcher was no libertarian. In her era neither was I. I joined the Conservative Party because she was its leader and because she –…
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Continue reading →: RIP Margaret Thatcher
My tour of my local brewery today was rather spoiled by our tour guide punching the air with glee at the news of Margaret Thatcher's end. What kind of human glories in another's death? RIP Margaret. You did your best.
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Continue reading →: Liberty League Freedom Forum 2013 #LLFF13
Liberty League Freedom Forum 2013 Tickets Now Available! | Introducing the keynote panel featuring philosopher Anders Sandberg, politician Douglas Carswell and university vice-principal Terence Kealey, chaired by Dominique Lazanski I thoroughly enjoyed my day at this event. Realising it was meant for students, I decided to keep uncharacteristically quiet. In…
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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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A little bird tweeted in my ear that it was time to come over and see how things are.