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Continue reading →: New home, new banner, new battles
I already mentioned here that I left China at the end of last year. On February 1st, I rented a new home in Sofia, Bulgaria. Last week, the contents of my Moscow apartment and office, which never made it to China, arrived here instead and I was able to move…
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Continue reading →: Lost wisdom
Libertarians, no matter how they may conduct themselves in private, are subjected to the blanket accusation of selfishness by their political opponents. Now-conventional thinking contrasts them unfavourably with left-liberals who "care" so very noisily when there is anyone about to take note. On this subject, in De Profundis, Oscar Wilde…
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Continue reading →: On the glory of state supplied services
Tim Worstall comments pithily on this subject today, but the "damning report" on state provision for the elderly cannot really have been a surprise to anyone likely to rely on such services. As someone who has visited family in state-run care homes and knows people who work in them, how…
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Continue reading →: Betrayal?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-09/obama-administration-trade-british-nuclear-secrets-with-russia/ I have been unfashionably fond of America since my days reading DC Comics and watching "Rawhide" on TV as a small boy. At university, I coined the word "yankophile" during a debate, noting how odd it was that we have the words "francophile", "russophile" and "sinophile", but no word…
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Continue reading →: The Devine Comedy
Except it isn't really funny, is it? This trade unionist and stalwart of the workers' party chose (partly) to defend himself by blaming an innocent employee. He may claim he did not understand he was doing wrong in filing forged expense claims, but what kind of a man cannot see…
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Continue reading →: Out of purdah soon?
I took a step towards resolving my work situation today. I have a new home, of which more soon. I am out of the clutches of my lawyers (but still dealing with my accountants). With luck, Mrs P's recently scary medical situation should be sorted out in the next week…
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Continue reading →: Parish notice
A belated happy new year to all! If there is one thing worse than a blogger blogging about blogging or bloggers, it's a blogger blogging about himself. So I shall take only seconds of your time to apologise for light posting. I am going through big life changes; some good,…
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Continue reading →: My favourite post of 2010
Most of my British readers do not share my views on guns, so my favourite post of the year here at The Last Ditch will not have appealed to them as to its substance. At least I hope most would agree with my proposed amendment to the British Constitution however,…
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Continue reading →: A time, long past, for choosing
After an embarrassing day observing the antics of the raddled, vicious little creatures who scuttle around the debris of a society that made, long ago, the wrong choice, it's chilling to be reminded of what politics could have been. h/t Steve Baker MP
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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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