In exploring Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, I found this: When one speaks of man’s right to exist for his own sake, for his own rational self-interest, most people assume automatically that this means his right to sacrifice others. Such an assumption is a confession of their own belief that to injure, […]
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Finishing “Human Action, A treatise on economics”, Volume 1
It seems sometimes that there is little truly new thinking to be done, merely the attempt to catch up with previous dismissals of foolish and destructive ideas: Of course, there will always be individuals and groups of individuals whose intellect is so narrow that they cannot grasp the benefits which […]
Read MoreDominic Grieve calls for fresh thinking on multiculturalism as he condemns a decade of political correctness
Dominic Grieve, the shadow Justice secretary, will today make a hard-hitting attack on political correctness and the Government’s failure to question damaging aspects of multiculturalism. But he also admits that the Right has so far failed to credibly address some of those issues. Speaking at Queen Mary, University of London, […]
Read MoreSome Costs of the Great War: Nationalizing Private Life
Following comments on the immediate astronomical human cost of the Great War: Yet this essay has to do less with numbers of ended lives than it has to do with altered lives, or rather, with changes in the status of the private life of the modern individual, the modern family, […]
Read MoreFT.com, Lex: “End of laisser faire?”
Before everyone dons Mao suits, let it be noted that it is not clear how raw this all-powerful capitalism really was. The market was fuelled by the central bank-filled punchbowl of cheap credit and underwritten by the existence of the Greenspan “put”. This promise of rate cuts in an emergency […]
Read MoreTelegraph – “ECB goes nuclear as EU leaders plan to ‘civilise’ capitalism”
“The ECB is doing whatever it takes to unclog the interbank market,” said Gilles Moec, from Bank of America, who described the move as “spectacular” volte-face and a belated recognition that the credit crisis is deadly serious. The monetary blitz was welcomed in Brussels, where EU leaders were meeting yet […]
Read MorePeter Oborne: Should the State or free choice rule our lives?
It’s not often I refer to the Daily Mail, but this is an astute summary of the thinking that has lead from the teaching of Jesus to the subversion of individual free will by Marx and Freud. Oborne argues that this created the pernicious belief that people were no longer […]
Read MoreGordon Brown, John Redwood and the FTSE
From the front page of The Times, right now: The FTSE falls by more than 10% in a few minutes, and Gordon Brown explains how “we must lead the world”. John Redwood says that “there is a new kind of madness stalking the government world, as the governments lurch from […]
Read MoreNew page: Bibliography
You’ll find a new page listed in the sidebar, a political bibliography. I hope you find some of these books useful. Those who say, ‘Let’s take the politics out of (whatever)’, would do well to understand that there are people who believe liberty is power and people who believe liberty […]
Read MoreThe tragic comedy of British communism
Idly wondering whether communism had died in the UK, I discovered The Communist Party of Great Britain and their paper, “The Weekly Worker”. This edition has a fascinating sidebar — “What we fight for” — which states first and foremost: Our central aim is the organisation of communists, revolutionary socialists […]
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![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n-320x320.jpg)
![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n.jpg)
