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Continue reading →: When is a rape not a rape?
When is a rape not a rape? SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG. Inspector Gadget is a brave man. His post today will set off a stampede of sacred cows. I sincerely hope he doesn't get trampled. Regardless of the inevitable synthetic fury from the luvvies, I believe him. I am…
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Continue reading →: The last banner?
There is a new masthead for The Last Ditch today. It's overdue as I moved to London almost a month ago. I now live in an apartment near the hospital where Mrs P is being treated. My days as a professional nomad are over and the battered passport in the…
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Continue reading →: To the barricades
Why do people in Britain not rise up in arms against the farce that is the NHS? Mrs P just called for a GP appointment and was told the earliest available is in TWO WEEKS. What kind of medical service is that!? And the joke is the doctor called *her*…
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Continue reading →: Rally Against Debt!
Rally Against Debt | The TaxPayers' Alliance. I wish I could be there, but Mrs P and I will be in transit from Venice. I hope there is a good turnout. Someone, in the face of public servants now earning on average (and taking account of their pension provision) 43%…
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Continue reading →: The French equivalents of the EDL?
From our hotel balcony in Paris this morning, Mrs P. and I had a view of an interesting demonstration against "mondalisation". Assorted nationalists (including, amusingly, a French skinhead wearing a biker jacket with a Union Flag on the back) expressed their concerns about Islam. A black bandana obscuring the face…
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Continue reading →: A Very Disconnected Elite
If he expected the outcome to the referendum to be such a massacre, he would never have bargained for it. First past the post implies, nay demands, a two party system. So what little point there ever was to the LibDems (and – by the way – UKIP) is gone.…
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Continue reading →: Leftism vs humour
You can’t have a laugh with a Lefty – Telegraph. Simon Heffer doesn't strike me as the cheeriest soul himself. I have only seen him once in person; at Lords, which is a jolly enough place, and he had a longer face than the sporting circumstances justified. Still he nails…
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Continue reading →: Where is the Guardian’s England?
Watching the Royal Wedding, I could not help but wonder who all those people in the streets of London were. Experiencing England, as I have, mainly through its media for the last twenty years, they seemed unfamiliar. They were clearly untroubled by envy, for example. They cheered the succession of…
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Continue reading →: If Liberty has Orphans, then I guess she’s dead
For Liberty. I commend this new venture to you. Group blogs seem to be the way forward now. It’s certainly hard for a solo blogger (especially one with a life) to compete with such sites. Given the people who have signed up as Orphans of Liberty, we can expect great…
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Continue reading →: The fallacy that underlies statist economic policy
When I was a student politician, there was a Trot on the NUS executive who screwed up the papers after each conference session and threw them on the floor with the words "more jobs". He was from some rubbish polytechnic. What's the excuse of our Oxbridge-educated elite for thinking the…
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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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