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Continue reading →: Come the revolution, don’t say you weren’t told
This pantomime of choice has created a mess, and an awful paradox | Deborah Orr | Comment is free | The Guardian. Deborah Orr of The Guardian has been suffering from breast cancer. I recently lost my wife to that disease so I am primed to sympathise with her. But…
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Continue reading →: Tom Paine is no more
A friend recently alerted me to the quaintly excellent Seven Stars pub, a survivor of the Great Fire of London, and its resident cat, Tom Paine. I blogged about him here. Tonight I ventured over there to meet a friend for a pint or three and to catch a glimpse of…
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Continue reading →: Join Old Holborn on his walk this Saturday
Old Holborn: Old Holborn is going for a walk. I shall be there this Saturday in Trafalgar Square at high noon (though I shall not be in Hallowe’en costume). I am just looking forward to having a drink with free men and women. Given the submissiveness and/or indifference to the…
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Continue reading →: England lives
Taking a bracing walk through a Warwickshire village yesterday, I noticed first that (it being where the Gunpowder Plotters plotted) there are several houses named after them. As they have been considered the vilest of traitors for much of our history, with small children encouraged to burn effigies on November…
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Continue reading →: Why doesn’t the Guardian defend this humble, disadvantaged boy?
Cribsheet 28.10.11 | Education | guardian.co.uk. The new film Anonymous revives the old claim that William Shakespeare, Immortal Bard of Avon, was a mere front man for some better-educated writer. As the film-maker admits, it's not that he has any evidence that – as he portrays it – the Earl…
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Continue reading →: No-one should have anything better than mine
Left Watch | Conservative Home. They never learn and they will never stop until they have laid waste to all that is good. The Labour Party is the greatest enemy of the British people, bar none. Education on the other hand is the greatest hope of our (and any) people.…
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Continue reading →: Britain ranks poorly in global ‘fairness’ league. So?
Britain ranks poorly in global 'fairness' league | Society | The Guardian. A left-wing newspaper reports that some left-wingers at a German think tank report that Britain is not left-wing enough. Colour me astounded. Life in Britain is not 'fair.' As every properly-raised child will have heard a thousand times…
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Continue reading →: The Peoples Pledge
Peoples Pledge – Home. I spent yesterday at the congress of The People's Pledge at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster. The campaign has a simple aim which unites people across Britain's political continuum; it asks voters publicly to register the following pledge; I am voting for an in-out referendum…
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Continue reading →: London’s Pub Cats: Tom Paine
London’s Pub Cats | Londonist. If you were wondering where I was… (click to enlarge and read tag). The ruff is the wrong period though, isn't 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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