BY STEWART SLATER One of the more depressing discoveries of the post-pandemic era, for those of a libertarian/classical liberal/Thatcherite persuasion, has been the innate authoritarianism of the British public. The pandemic revealed that large swathes of the population were more than happy to restrict the freedom of their fellows, and many wished to carry on doing so – 25% of poll respondents wanted to close … Continue reading In Defence of Coutts