With all the debate about quangos, I wondered whether anyone had made the case against them based on the Rule of Law. And so I found and added to my reading list Political power and democratic … – Google Books: There is a sense in which quasi-government diminishes the role and […]
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“Britain’s Road to Socialism”
From some people who need to read, as Hayek did, von Mises with a critical but open mind: The peoples of the world are confronted today with problems of enormous magnitude. These include the ever-growing poverty and widespread malnutrition and disease which afflict billions of the world’s six billion population; […]
Read MoreBanks, economic interventionism and the cause of the credit crisis
(This post is a precis of Huerta de Soto’s Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles pp650-653, presenting an argument which was famously expounded by von Mises in Socialism. Among the young idealists who were attracted to socialism after the Great War, who came through these arguments expressed in full to […]
Read MoreReconciling ourselves to capitalism
Reflecting on aspects of the debate about capitalism, I picked this out of Liberalism, the Classical Tradition: To advocate private ownership of the means of production is by no means to maintain that the capitalist social system, based on private property, is perfect. There is no such thing as earthly […]
Read MoreLabour’s Class Law
An end to equality before the law? Every public body will have to take class background into account when making decisions under radical new legislation unveiled by the Government today. The law means that all public authorities – from Whitehall to local councils – will be subject to an over-arching […]
Read MoreCheer from Noel Coward
Free music – There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner (1999 Digital Remaster)
Read MoreIndependence from the state
From 1968: To return to the personal theme, if we accept the need for increasing responsibility for self and family it means that we must stop approaching things in an atmosphere of restriction. There is nothing wrong in people wanting larger incomes. It would seem a worthy objective for men […]
Read MoreNoel Coward – “There are Bad Times Just Around The Corner”
Sarah Kennedy cheered us this morning with Noel Coward’s “There are Bad Times Just Around The Corner“: There are bad times just around the corner And the outlook’s absolutely vile, You can take this from us That when they Atom bomb us We are NOT going to tighten our belts […]
Read More“Thought for to-day”: stand firm for freedom
From the Conservative Party Archive, poster 1950-11: The poster archive is an engaging place to spend a half hour, particularly when you realise that Labour are still socialists.
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