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The Economist’s attitude to liberty today
Read more: The Economist’s attitude to liberty todayA mob of Britain’s finest eccentrics will gather in central London on February 28th. Their ranks will include outspoken novelists, radical lawyers and fed-up judges. David Davis, an unusual MP who left the shadow cabinet to wage guerrilla…
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Convention on Modern Liberty: “What we have lost”
Read more: Convention on Modern Liberty: “What we have lost”From the Convention’s “Abolition of Freedom Act 2009”: One of the problems with the erosion of liberty in Britain over the last decade was that the public failed to pay attention to what was happening in Parliament. Laws…
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Think tank Reform on police reform
Read more: Think tank Reform on police reformIndependent think tank Reform calls for regional police forces to be split and the Metropolitan Police to be given a mandate to run serious crime fighting across England and Wales. Without effective police reform, England and Wales will…
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Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles
Read more: Money, Bank Credit and Economic CyclesJesus Huerta De Soto’s book, “Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles” arrived today, all 875 pages of it. It is, apparently: by far the most thorough treatment in print of Austrian ideas on banking and the business cycle …
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Fight against terror ‘spells end of privacy’
Read more: Fight against terror ‘spells end of privacy’How I look forward to The Convention on Modern Liberty: Sir David Omand, the former Whitehall security and intelligence co-ordinator, sets out a blueprint for the way the state will mine data – including travel information, phone records…
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Testing Times for Central Banks — Baxendale and Evans
Read more: Testing Times for Central Banks — Baxendale and EvansYesterday, I had lunch with two of the UK’s leading Austrian-school economists, Toby Baxendale and Anthony J. Evans, the authors of the IEA article “Testing Times for Central Banks — Is there room for Austrian ideas at the…
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Chris Grayling on law and order
Read more: Chris Grayling on law and orderToday, I listened to David Cameron introduce Chris Grayling for his first major speech as shadow home secretary. It was great stuff: heartfelt, tough and full of measures that will be welcomed. In his introduction, David Cameron explained…
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The New Cold War, Edward Lucas
Read more: The New Cold War, Edward LucasA fascinating book by The Economist‘s Central and East European correspondent, Edward Lucas: First a medieval fortress and then the citadel of Soviet totalitarianism, the Kremlin’s rose-red walls have rarely made lovers of liberty and justice feel at…
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Man and nature: out of balance
Read more: Man and nature: out of balanceFor two centuries, since the Age of the Enlightenment, we assumed that whatever the advance of science, whatever the economic development, whatever the increase in human numbers, the world would go on much the same. That was progress.…