I used to consider myself a patriot… no more. There is simply nothing to be proud about and we have the government the voters deserve. But I didn’t leave England, England left me.
– Thaddeus Tremayne, overheard over dinner.
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July 6th, 2012 | 35 comments - (Comments are closed)
 If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. – P. J. O’Rourke June 29th, 2012 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
To hire an opinion pollster as a strategist is to put a spinning weathervane where a compass needle ought to be – Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. Now where did I see the leader of this dismal crew described as a weathervane before back in 2007? June 28th, 2012 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
In the 1950s, Anthony Crosland argued that we could take capitalism’s strength for granted. A future Labour government would be able to heap up the tax burden as well as the regulatory one – and the capitalist milch cow would continue to pour out the milk. Through experience, we in the UK have learnt that Croslandism is as flawed as any other form of socialism, but Europe, albeit unwittingly, is still in his thrall. June 24th, 2012 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
How do I know that my narrative is better than yours? The experiments of the 20th century told me so. It would have been hard to know the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman or Matt Ridley or Deirdre McCloskey in August of 1914, before the experiments in large government were well begun. But anyone who after the 20th century still thinks that thoroughgoing socialism, nationalism, imperialism, mobilization, central planning, regulation, zoning, price controls, tax policy, labor unions, business cartels, government spending, intrusive policing, adventurism in foreign policy, faith in entangling religion and politics, or most of the other thoroughgoing 19th-century proposals for governmental action are still neat, harmless ideas for improving our lives is not paying attention. June 20th, 2012 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give it to others to whom it does not belong. We must see whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen and to the detriment of others, an act which that citizen could not perform himself without being guilty of a crime. Repeal such a law without delay… If you do not take care, what begins by being an exception tends to become general, to multiply itself, and to develop into a veritable system. – Frederic Bastiat June 3rd, 2012 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Britain’s energy reforms are billed as a key part of the Cameron government’s growth strategy. To understand why the U.K. economy is flat-lining, look to a government that believes a policy to raise energy prices and squeeze living standards is good for growth. Unless Mr. Cameron wants to share Jimmy Carter’s electoral fate, he’d better push the reset button on his energy policy – fast May 31st, 2012 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
A Dead Statesman I could not dig; I dared not rob: Rudyard Kipling Ponder… May 17th, 2012 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
The problem is not that the BBC is on the wrong wavelength, it is that it is on any wavelength at all. That in this day and age a supposedly first world country has a tax funded state broadcast institution is simply absurd. May 14th, 2012 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. – L. Neil Smith May 9th, 2012 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority – Edmund Burke May 6th, 2012 | 55 comments - (Comments are closed)
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