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Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders

23rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 2206 Comments

Oh, I know. You aren’t REALLY against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field”. Those Chinese cheat by raising tariffs against our goods and subsidizing key industries that they want to [more…]

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Cure for Cancer

5th August 2024 Patrick Barron 4149 Comments

To: Professor Don Boudreaux, George Mason University From: Patrick Barron Date: July 21, 2024   Dear Don, I read your latest Café Hayek post “On Making the Case for Free Trade” in which you respond [more…]

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Sugar subsector reforms a Herculean task for Ruto

31st January 2024 Going Postal 2283 Comments

It is commendable that the Ruto regime is taking steps to revive the sugar sector but President Ruto will require strong goodwill to succeed where his predecessors have failed. January 11, 2024 In recent years, [more…]

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When Government Stops Intervening

22nd March 2021 Emile Woolf 2062 Comments

My recent essays have focused on the boost to economic growth that occurs quite naturally when obstacles are removed. I cited the positive economic consequences of Margaret Thatcher’s decision to allow markets, including the labour [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy One

13th December 2020 Going Postal 2179 Comments

Monday Morning cat lovers. Bit grey, misty and grotty again, but at least it’s dry! Big news to report this morning. My favourite cat treats lady was working yesterday and I went to say hello [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary Week Fifty Nine

20th September 2020 Going Postal 1748 Comments

Monday Good Morning merry readers, Monday again and Yah it was back to Felix with Gravy this morning. I must have eaten all the stuff with jelly. It wasn’t chicken but beef, not quite as [more…]

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Free Ports

5th March 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3123 Comments

There has been much welcome talk of a government initiative to nominate free ports in the north & develop a platform for the renaissance of some of the great cities of yesteryear, the cities that [more…]

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Allocating public resources to where they do most good

24th February 2020 Emile Woolf 2488 Comments

If government has a duty to protect the lives, property and civil liberties of its subjects, ours is currently guilty of failing to display any meaningful police presence on our streets – beyond speeding yellow [more…]

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Selective Recollection & Economic Reality

10th February 2020 Emile Woolf 4093 Comments

Those still shedding tears over our departure from the EU invariably refer to the success of the EU in healing post-WW2 wounds and keeping peace in Europe for 75 years. By the same token they [more…]

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