Freedom is an anathema to Migration Watch…
What is wrong about people choosing where they want to live? That’s called freedom. As a Conservative, I believe in freedom under the rule of law. That includes the freedom to associate with whom I like, the freedom to trade with whom I choose, the freedom to sell or...
Reform Welfare, Axe Benefit Tourism… & Open the Doors!
Matthew Elliot, who founded the Taxpayers’Alliance, has an interesting opinion piece in the Daily Mail today (20/01/12), on the need to address the issue of benefit tourism. As Matthew writes, migrants should “Come here to work, not to claim benefits”. Matthew’s “hook” is a study published by Chris Grayling...
Socialism is (still) Impossible… Reflections on debating the Socialist Party of Great Britain’s Adam Buick – 20 years on
Twenty years ago at Chiswick Town Hall in West London, on the 17th January 1992, I debated Adam Buick of the Socialist Party of Great Britain on the subject of the impossibility of socialism. (This debate is one of hundreds of SPGB debates listed on Wikipedia, here.) With the...