Ministers have drawn up a range of measures that would allow middle-class pensioners to keep their property. Options could include compulsory insurance paid throughout a career, We have compulsory insurance paid throughout a career: it’s called National Insurance. However, our Lords and Masters piss away the income from this levy on

Liberty is liberty, not equality or human happiness or a quiet conscience. [Isaiah Berlin, 1958] In the lip service paid in this era by governments and the powers behind them to the concepts of fairness and justice through their ‘positive discrimination’ and ‘egalitarian society’, the central aim all along has been the curtailment of liberty. To return to the original plan ...

This is indeed true: Conclusions This report is not about targeting any individuals in the highly paid jobs it scrutinises. Neither is it simply suggesting that people in low paid jobs should be paid more. The point we are making is a more complex one – that there should be a relationship between what we are paid

Michael Howard was last night at the centre of extraordinary claims by a drugs baron who alleges that he paid a £400,000 ‘bribe’ to the former Home Secretary. Career criminal John Haase told a Labour MP that he was released from prison early after making the payment via one of Mr Howard’s relatives. No, that’s just one

"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." Woodrow Wilson

Some years ago I harangued a meeting on the threat to liberty, and found myself sharing a platform with John Wadham, then the director of Liberty (formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties). I teased him by saying that he...

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Campaign group Liberty seems more interested in proposing an alternative authoritarianism than defending freedom.

From the party that brought you Nanny on the State and Mistress on the State, the Tory Party now presents……Career Break on the State! Yes, Shadow Deputy Whip Andrew Robathan and scourge of many a Labour minister over expenses and alleged ”abuses of power” has declared he employs his wife Rachel as a senior researcher on

This. The solution of course, as we so often say, is better people. But to be able to get some, we have to have some liberty. Posted in Liberty Tagged: expenses, Liberty, morality, MPs, rules, scumbags, socialism, troughing