There are solid reasons why countries with lower taxes and less regulation tend to be more prosperous.

Riding through Sussex, William Cobbett comes across a large family relaxing together in front of their charming cottage.

The citizen should not dutifully accept government intrusion as the price of community life.

In one of his ‘Cato Letters’, John Trenchard took issue with the view (popular in Westminster) that the public could not be left to make up their own minds.

It began to look as if Abraham Thornton might go down for rape and murder, so his attorneys dug deep into their bag of legal tricks.

The authors of the ‘Cato Letters’ recalled how Greek general Timoleon replied when the people he had saved from oppression turned and bit him.