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About Greybeard
Greybeard is a lifelong conservative Conservative – and having reached 84 years of age, is now a very old one. He believes that great age combined with a sceptical turn of mind gives him a special insight into the fads and follies of today as well as those of the past. He is particularly critical… Read more
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HAYEK’S HORRORS
The biggest problem facing the Tories today is their ridiculous subservience to the simplistic theories embodied in the ‘small government, free markets and low taxes’ mantra so often spouted by those on the extreme right. These ideas have made the two candidates for the office of prime minister desperate to avoid the supposed crime of… Read more
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The Housing Crisis
Michael Gove’s complaint that building developers are acting as a cartel once again highlights the parlous state of Britain’s housing market. For reasons that will emerge it has problems far too deep to be resolved merely by an intensive building programme – even one of Rooseveltian grandeur. As a lifelong conservative Conservative – and at… Read more
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