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Champions of freedom: John Blundell and Neil Craig
Friday July 25, 2014
Brian Monteith gives an appreciation of John Blundell and Neil Craig who both in their own ways spoke out to make the world more open and free
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John Blundell: defender of the free society
Wednesday July 23, 2014
Professor John Burton pays tribute to John Blundell, former director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, who died on July 22
Comment
Lies, damned lies and tobacco control statisticsYet more obfuscation of statistics to deny the counterproductive effects of tobacco control policies must mean higher taxes to disguise their repeated failure, argues Brian Monteith |
Comment
Review of the week ending 19 JulyAlarming or cheering reporting from blogs, websites and newspapers that aims to keep you up-to-date and entertained – stories in no particular order… |
Comment
Why nanny should become the new 'N' wordBrendan O’Neill’s speech at The Freedom Dinner is published here for those who couldn’t make it … |
Comment
An over-provision of health quangocratsStuart Winton shows how state quangocrats will challenge new businesses selling alcohol within the law – with no evidence base or democratic mandate. |
Comment
Masturbation won’t cause you to go blind – and smoking probably won’t eitherChris Oakley retells the health scares about masturbation and their relationship to the state’s misleading tobacco packaging of today |
Comment
Review of the week ending 14 JulyRobust, unusual or obscure reporting from blogs, websites and newspapers that aims to keep you up-to-date and entertained – stories in no particular order… |
Comment
Grammar schools are about freedom for parentsClass based Grammar schools are a contradiction in terms, argues Simon Hills |
Comment
Our government is drunk on powerAnother week another mind-numbingly stupid idea. This time Theresa May teams up with Jeremy Hunt to parade their spineless connivance with our public health commissars, argues Brian Monteith |
Smoking
Covert sensitization by government decree?What are the intellectual origins of the latest state intervention in our lives? John Burton argues it is not only unethical but is dangerously open-ended. |
Comment
Do you let people define what you can hear and think?In an edited version of his speech at the Zurich Salon discussion ‘Free speech with or without “buts”?’ Dennis Hayes challenges bans on speech |