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The Government’s Education Select Committee is toying with a new idea to improve school education. Performance-related pay is to be considered, with a proposal that poorer teachers be paid less. In doing so they are falling into the socialist trap of imposing market-style discipline on a state-controlled activity, a process that often manages to [...]

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Capitalism is a Threat

On February 6, 2012 By

The long-term viability of the UK as a major business centre is in question thanks to ill-conceived statements issued by senior political figures keen to pretend to be in command. They view this as a small price to pay compared to the gains to be had in growing centralisation and control. The state views [...]

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The drive to succeed has created innovations that have improved our lives in countless ways. Despite the bad press it receives, and in contrast to many state-controlled projects, only capitalism has consistently [...]

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The government's ambitions for public service reform are hampered by a widespread belief that bureaucrats and politicians must decide on our behalf; that the way forward is to improve this centralised process rather than replace it with a free market system that provides choice.

We must [...]

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A new blog to keep an eye on

On November 8, 2010 By

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The internet has been immensely useful in recent years for spreading the ideas and principles of libertarianism. During the Republican leadership campaign of 2008 Ron Paul had a huge internet following which allowed the 2007 money bomb to take place on [...]

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