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“The Church of England’s suspicion of Tommy Robinson’s conversion revives, unwittingly, a very old heresy: Donatism. St Augustine confronted the claim that the moral failings of a minister could nullify the gospel itself.”
The UK‘s other Christian Libertarian and a former police officer, my friend Fr. Dan Stork Banks, writes about the carol service organized by Unite The Kingdom:
“In the Commons today, MPs gathered for the great constitutional question of our age: should Britain voluntarily re-enact the bit of Brexit everyone agreed was a terrible idea?”
With apologies to @RobDotHutton, this evening, I idly asked ChatGPT to lampoon today’s tied vote on a customs union. It’s really quite good, so here it is.
https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/should-the-uk-voluntarily-re-enact
📢Economic central planning has always failed and Net Zero rests upon it.
💡No government, even a capable one, can acquire the knowledge required to direct our lives and investments.
🤯The consequences are predictable: declining prosperity, growing coercion and ever more difficulty pursuing happiness.
🗽My paper, out today: Net Zero and the Threat to Human Liberty
A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/the-chancellors-scene-setter-speech
😤Hubris: the intoxication of power
💉Power is a drug. Politicians and their courtesans are addicts. Hubris and failure follow.
💡Clinging to humility could make a big difference.
https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/hubris-the-intoxication-of-power
📣This government won’t get away with blaming Brexit in the face of quality journalism like this.
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/uk-better-off-without-brexit-fm7bcqhsq
🗽Who will be the UK’s Milei ?
📣“Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity”
🗽Thank you so much to everyone who has expressed support for the Fighting for a Free Future project: you are hugely appreciated!
✊🏻Everyone who supports FFF is part of the movement for free markets and freedom – and there is plenty you can please do to help.
https://www.stevebaker.info/2025/10/how-you-can-help-fight-for-a-free-future/
Ideas and action
How to inspire young voters and unite the country as the managerial age collapses: offer the hope and reality of a better future founded on ideas that work.
https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/ideas-and-action
😱This week's news stories paint a stark picture of Britain's immigration system in crisis.
😡Idealism won't wash: people are too angry.
💡And yet somehow we must defend and preserve a society in which the people we have continue to feel welcome.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/immigration-and-a-good-society
What would be an "authentically Conservative position"?
Libertarian optimist, mere conservative or communitarian nationalist? Who is the authentic Conservative? Towards a Conservatism that can work.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/what-would-be-an-authentically-conservative
🤝 During my time as an MP, I was pleased to work with thousands of my constituents on a wide range of policy issues.
📥 MPs receive an exceptional level of correspondence. In my series on the workings of Parliament, Liam Shearer outlines how to get your MP's attention.
➡ https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/how-not-to-get-ignored-by-your-mp
Now that Labour MPs can see plainly that their Prime Minister is willing to pick them off a few at a time to coerce the rest into obedience, they have to answer a simple question: will they tolerate it or not?
Starmer's absolutism
Why it matters and what Labour MPs can do about it
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/starmers-absolutism
Climate policy is now so important, everyone seeking to wield or influence power ought to know the terms of debate.
Radical candour for Ed Miliband
The climate is changing and we should take that seriously. But climate policy is leading us to ruin, often on unscientific foundations: the now implausible high emissions scenario RCP8.5.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/radical-candour-for-ed-miliband
📣I said I oppose wealth taxes.
😡People replied: ‘You’re corrupt. Self-interested. Bought.’”
🤦🏻♂️That’s the fundamental attribution error - it’s why people think they are on the moral high ground as they attack viciously.
🔗https://www.theprovocationpeople.com/2025/01/fundamental-attribution-error/
A moment of anguish, a crisis of authority
The Chancellor's heart-rending distress in the Commons may have strengthened her position but it seems likely Keir Starmer will need another Chancellor as his strategy collapses.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-anguish-a-crisis-of-authority
https://video.nostr.build/00cbaf19ceed672c8a8dc2693a2943055a8dde1dab297d6ad49c026fd28982ce.mp4
A day of wrath for the Labour Whips
Finally, a rebellion they can’t contain through political brute force.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/a-day-of-wrath-for-the-labour-whips
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📻 I’ll be on Times Radio just after 9 to discuss Iran, free speech and other big issues of the day (🥵)