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Continue reading →: US Tour 2013 – It’s a “go”
The last piece of preparation just fell into place. With the shippers pressing me, I have just received an offer of motor insurance for the good old US of A. I was beginning to doubt it could be done, but it has – with moments to spare. Once my service…
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Continue reading →: The end approaches?
It has been a terrible week politically. I have nothing to add on the subject of the press "regulation" omnishambles. My views have been well-represented around the blogosphere and even – for once – in the mainstream media. I have already offered my views on the EU/Cyprus bank deposits grab. Our lords…
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Continue reading →: Tell me again how governments differ from gangsters?
The Cyprus bail-out: Unfair, short-sighted and self-defeating | The Economist. When I compare government to organised crime, people seem to think I am being extreme. But the parallels are exact. They extort protection money (tax) some of which is deployed to punishing lesser criminals, but never very effectively or consistently. Far…
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Continue reading →: Beware the Ides of March
The Blogspot Last Ditch Archives: The opening shot Today is the eighth anniversary of my first post on this blog. Since then, there has been a whole lot of expostulating here against the British State and its wicked ways. I am not sure the first post received even a single…
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Continue reading →: Three questions about a dancing ray
I am taking a rest from my usual civil liberties / current affairs concerns to ponder the following questions provoked (after the consumption of much good French drink) by this remarkable film. What would Sigmund Freud make of it? For what evolutionary purpose did such a weird, apparently empty,…
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Continue reading →: En route
Blogging will be light to non-existent as I am off to France for a week. I drive from London to Dijon today and then on to the Cote d'Azur tomorrow. I am attending the MIPIM property event in Cannes (as I have every year since 1991). It will not all…
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Continue reading →: Overheard at the hairdresser
I overhead this languid conversation between two elderly gents in Mayfair. Gent 1: I was sorry to hear about Michael Gent 2: So was I. How did he die? Gent 1: In his car apparently; always racing about Gent 2: Lively chap Gent 1: Not now he isn't
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Continue reading →: The people who should be our puppets use their puppets to make puppets of us
Euro Puppets: The European Commission’s remaking of civil society | Institute of Economic Affairs. Tell a statist that the government spends too much of GDP; that the state should be scaled down and taxes reduced and the response is highly predictable. He will start talking about doctors and nurses, teachers…
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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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