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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Liberty</title>
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		<title>Northumberland 2010 photoset</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my (hopefully!) more interesting photos from Northumberland may be found here.
This emotive shot is most likely to be used again:
I was pleased with this falcon(?) too:

It was hunting on the updraft around Dunstanburgh castle, with a swift(?) bouncing in playfully:

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		<title>War planes mark 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill&#8217;s Battle of Britain speech &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/08/war-planes-mark-70th-anniversary-of-winston-churchills-battle-of-britain-speech-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-fighter pilots and relatives of war heroes joined commemorations as Sir Winston Churchill&#8217;s stirring &#8217;so much owed by so many to so few&#8217; speech was read out, prompting tears in the crowd.
The actor Robert Hardy began reading out the speech at 3.52pm, exactly 70 years after the wartime prime minister delivered it in Parliament.
via War ]]></description>
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		<title>The altruistic individual in society</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/08/the-altruistic-individual-in-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for an article to be published in the Autumn, I just reread The Open Society and Its Enemies &#8211; Volume 1: The Spell of Plato. The book traces mankind&#8217;s opposition to change and the consequent rise of the myth of destiny, technically, historicism: the belief that history unfolds according to laws which can ]]></description>
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		<title>From the BFP &#8211; Tory: Coalition partners Lib Dems could &#8216;disappear&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/08/tory-coalition-partners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Tory: Coalition partners Lib Dems could &#8216;disappear&#8217; (From Bucks Free Press):
SUGGESTIONS the Lib Dems could &#8216;disappear&#8217; because of the &#8217;shift in politics&#8217; have been dismissed by the party&#8217;s Wycombe leader – following a neighbouring councillor&#8217;s defection.
There is an excellent explanation of the structure of political ideas in the author&#8217;s preface to Living with Leviathan (David B ]]></description>
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		<title>On self-ownership &#8211; whose property are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/on-self-ownership-whose-property-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my remarks on the illegitimacy of banning particular items of clothing, I have been criticised for asserting the concept of self-ownership: the idea that each of us has an inviolable property right in our own person. It turns out this is a difficult concept:
Property is the most fundamental and complex of social ]]></description>
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		<title>Wycombe MP Steve Baker: burka ban &#8216;just absurd&#8217; (From Bucks Free Press)</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/wycombe-mp-steve-baker-burka-ban-just-absurd-from-bucks-free-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of an interview at a community event at Sir William Ramsay School, I was asked to comment on recent discussions regarding banning the burka (we might more accurately have discussed the niqab):
CREATING a law to ban the burka would be “just absurd”, Wycombe MP Steve Baker says.
The wearing of the Islamic face ]]></description>
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		<title>Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/rothbard-the-ethics-of-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard is a difficult book to which few could subscribe in full.
It is difficult partly because it is concerned only with &#8216;that subset of the natural law that develops the concept of natural rights, and that deals with the proper sphere of “politics,” i.e., with violence and non-violence as ]]></description>
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		<title>The State Opening of Parliament</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/the-state-opening-of-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 12:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I found myself standing by the exit into the aye lobby for the state opening of Parliament. The text of the Queen&#8217;s Speech, for which I was lucky to be able to enter the House of Lords, may be found here:
The Queen, seated on the Throne and attended by Her Officers of State, commanded ]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Decline of the State</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/the-rise-and-decline-of-the-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has said that the era of big government has run its course. The foreword to our manifesto sets out the rotten state of Britain (see also Butler) and the change we offer: from big government to big society.
What then is the history of big government? How did it come about? Has it run ]]></description>
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		<title>Bastiat &#8211; The State</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/bastiat-the-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 08:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at The Cobden Centre.
In the course of things, I had cause to quote Bastiat, a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly: &#8220;The state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.&#8221; This prompted me to dig out ]]></description>
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