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Liberty and Prosperity
Stories from Britain and elsewhere confirming the social and economic benefits of keeping politicians and their cronies out of the trade and business of ordinary people.
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A Nation’s Greatness
By Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden saw Britain’s international standing in terms of peaceful trade rather than military interventions.
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The Temperate Zone
By William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.
105
Raw Haste
By Sir Reginald Coupland
The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.
106
Hard Rain
By William Cobbett
Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.
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The Real Merchant
William Cobbett makes a distinction between everyday business and the murky world of Westminster lobbyists and financial speculation.
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Free Trade, Free Peoples
Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.
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