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September 23, 2012

Bad News for Big Government

Douglas Carswell, Daily Telegraph

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"Until August 1914,” wrote the historian AJP Taylor, an “Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state. [Government] left the adult citizen alone.” How different it is today. From the moment he gets out of bed in the morning, an Englishman’s life is overseen by officialdom.

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