War on Drugs Causes Drug Mules…
This story has all the ingredients for a great story: two young, attractive young women arrested in South America with huge quantities of cocaine in their luggage as they try to fly back to Europe’s party capital. For the tabloids, the girls’ forlorn faces gazing out makes great copy;...
George H. Smith’s new book, The System of Liberty
Very excited to have just received through the post a copy of George H. Smith’s latest book, The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press & Cato Institute, 2013) – and I’ve already started in on it! My excitement stems from knowing...
A Magna Carta for the Web?
It’s time we started paying more attention to the longer-term agenda by governments to control the internet and reassert their somewhat weakened control over our lives using the 21st Century equivalents of the Trojan Horse: moral panics, and claims that they need these new powers to “tackle” welfare fraud...