Day: November 21, 2012

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Liberal reflections

Freedom is the precondition of progress

Nobody who has even a slight acquaintance with world history can have failed to be struck by the occurrence of periods of extraordinary creativity in a few places and for quite short times, which have made greater contributions to human progress than the whole of

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Feature Article: It’s better to nationalise fashion and chewing gum

It is important to take the nationalisation debate as seriously as the debate about whether the earth is flat and rivers run uphill. Nationalisation is where people who don’t produce wealth confiscate wealth from those who do and ensure productive assets become unproductive.

Calls for nationalisation baffle informed people who know

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