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Free Markets

Dimbleby’s Errant Elegy

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN David Dimbleby’s recent, noteworthy ‘in-depth’ piece for the BBC on the supposed decline of the free market reads at times like a wistful elegy. While acknowledging Thatcher’s transformations and Trump’s disruptions, he underestimates the enduring necessity of free markets, even amidst rapid technological evolution. The notion of a ‘golden age’ before all this is a rose-tinted view. Dimbleby glosses over the inefficiencies … Continue reading Dimbleby’s Errant Elegy

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Capitalism, coronavirus

Cigar for the Capitalist Vaccine

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN While those two Americans in their seventies take an impressively long time to maintain an election, risibly both are taking credit for the new Covid vaccine manufactured by Pfizer (ironically a firm best known for producing the world-renowned recreational drug Viagra). Just remember that – whatever you are told or blocked from seeing on Twitter – these politicians were nowt to do … Continue reading Cigar for the Capitalist Vaccine

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Political Philosophy, Politics

What Drives Corbyn’s Young Lemmings?

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN When Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn holds his rallies, he not only entices the old, battered diehards of Britain’s far-left – those from Militant to the Socialist Workers Party to Left Unity – he also attracts considerable numbers of youthful political virgins, who have never joined a political party before. I have concluded that these people are wandering inadvertently into socialism; swallowing assumptions … Continue reading What Drives Corbyn’s Young Lemmings?

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