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I’ve been following my left-liberal friends’ reaction to Margaret Thatcher’s death. I take it they’re not huge fans of her historical legacy. I’m not such a big fan myself. But one aspect of her legacy deserves some notice. The Thatcher...
Margaret Thatcher, RIP. I find I have very little to say about her. What matters about Thatcher, or at any rate about Thatcherism, is that there really was a significant change among elites about the power and efficacy of markets....
A colleague alerted me to a piece in British Medical Journal News discussing a presentation on the National Health Service, the health care system in the United Kingdom. You know – the one that’s totally run by the government. Here’s...
David Cameron has just taken a colossal gamble with the future of his and my country and of Europe. In a speech delivered at the Bloomberg offices in London on 23 January – symbolic of the Tories’ true heartland, the...
Earlier today David Cameron made public what had been speculated for a while now: if the Conservatives are re-elected to another term in office, then the UK will hold an in/out referendum on EU membership in 2017 or 2018. A...