No, Christopher Wren and Isaac Newton were not great MPs
Matthew Engel in today’s Financial Times has a pop at our current MPs, saying: The House of Commons used to be filled with men of renown. Sir Christopher Wren was an MP. So was Sir Isaac Newton – and...
View ArticleJohn Stuart Mill symposium – Saturday 14 November, LSE, London
One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1859, the great Liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill published his most important and enduring work, On Liberty. Used today as the symbol of office of the President...
View ArticleQuestion: Big or small government? Answer: effective
One prominent member of Liberal Youth hits the nail on the head when she says ‘[I am] frankly sick of all this I’m a social liberal so I’m a better Lib Dem; no it’s Orange Bookers that are real Lib...
View ArticleOpinion: Land Value Tax – an old idea with lots of modern supporters
Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations (1776) was an early proponent of land taxes as was that great radical Tom Paine. John Stuart Mill was an advocate and Henry George put the case in ‘Progress and...
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John Stuart Mill would have supported hard Brexit, says Boris
From the Guardian: The foreign secretary called (the EU) a “teleological construction” that was “ends driven”. He said the founding fathers of the common market decided to create a “new sense of...
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Has social media compromised liberty?
Do we lose the right to privacy when we involve ourselves in social media? The obvious answer to this question is “of course not” and that should be the case, but is it? Facebook, a business that...
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Any Liberal government worth its salt would repeal the sugar tax
As the so-called ‘sugar tax’ comes into being, it’s worth remembering just how poor a piece of policy it is. The sugar tax is regressive, it is ineffective and it is illiberal; any Liberal government...
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