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<updated>2010-08-22T08:52:00Z</updated>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Government urged to reveal ‘true’ national debt of £4.8 trillion – Telegraph]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-22T08:52:00Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-22T08:52:00Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="BIS" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="debt" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="economics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="IEA" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Parliament" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Via Government urged to reveal ‘true’ national debt of £4.8 trillion – Telegraph:
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has calculated that the national debt is £4.8 trillion once state and public sector pension liabilities are included, or £78,000 for every person in the UK.
The IEA raised its concerns after the latest public finances data from the ]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Rivlin, Understanding the Law]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-20T20:15:09Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-21T08:22:39Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Books" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Law" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Property" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I first mentioned Understanding the Law by Geoffrey Rivlin after observing the proceedings of Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. At last, I have finished it.
The book is a tour de force covering the law and its importance, the courts, the constitution, Parliament, the police, the judiciary, human rights, discrimination, the legal profession, the work of the courts ]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[War planes mark 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s Battle of Britain speech – Telegraph]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-20T20:21:33Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-20T20:21:33Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Heroism" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Liberty" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="RAF" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="War" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ex-fighter pilots and relatives of war heroes joined commemorations as Sir Winston Churchill’s stirring ’so much owed by so many to so few’ speech was read out, prompting tears in the crowd.
The actor Robert Hardy began reading out the speech at 3.52pm, exactly 70 years after the wartime prime minister delivered it in Parliament.
via War ]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Heroes or victims?]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-20T17:48:53Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-20T17:48:03Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Photography" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Beth and I just spent a few days in Cumbria with old friends and their wonderful children. When he and I graduated together from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, we never imagined that today I would be an MP and he would be managing a major manufacturing facility, but that is a story for ]]></summary>
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<name>Steve Baker</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Dr Eamonn Butler, Austrian Economics – A Primer]]></title>
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<id>http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=7940</id>
<updated>2010-08-18T17:50:19Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-19T11:03:04Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Austrian School" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Books" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Cobden Centre" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="economics" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at The Cobden Centre.
Following his introduction to Mises, Dr Eamonn Butler has released his latest book, Austrian Economics – A Primer. I recommend it strongly if you want to grasp the fundamentals of the Austrian School of Economics as quickly as possible: at just 118 pages, this pamphlet can be tackled ]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Alternatives to capitalism: Nikolai Bukharin on the division of labour]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-18T09:35:29Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-18T09:01:56Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Capitalism" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Communism" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Favourite" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Incompetence" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Market Intervention" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="USSR" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Brought forward – I’m on holiday.
Thinking about the pressures on capitalism — or rather, on the interventionism that passes for capitalism today — and on the alternative which was most comprehensively implemented, I discovered this recipe for chaos and failure from Bukharin:
Under communism people receive a many-sided culture, and find themselves at home in various ]]></summary>
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<name>Steve Baker</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thought for the day – Karl Popper on reason and critical discussion]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-17T09:56:27Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-17T09:56:27Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Parliament" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Popper" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Quotations" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Reason" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[From All Life is Problem Solving:
When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be ]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thought for the day – Bastiat]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-11T08:47:12Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-16T08:45:36Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Bastiat" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Quotations" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Bastiat’s dialogue What is Money?
B. I have not yet made up my mind that your views upon money and political economy in general are correct. But, from your conversation, this is what I have gathered: — That these questions are of the highest importance; for peace or war, order or anarchy, the union or ]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thought for the day – Churchill]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-13T07:05:59Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-13T06:41:39Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Churchill" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Quotations" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Though this is from Winston Churchill’s The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948), it seems relevant to the intellectual battle over economics we face today:
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too ]]></summary>
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<name>Steve Baker</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Labour’s legacy]]></title>
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<updated>2010-08-11T12:28:19Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-12T07:00:19Z</published>
<category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Politics" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Incompetence" /><category scheme="http://www.stevebaker.info" term="Labour" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A new video from the Party:
Sayeeda Warsi, Co-Chairman of Conservative Party, has written:
Labour’s incompetent handling of our economy will hit all of our pockets. The cuts to come are Labour’s cuts. So, it’s only fair that the people responsible should share some of the pain. That’s why today I have written to each of Labour’s leadership ]]></summary>
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