When I was cutting my teeth in Fleet Street, writing about politics was so much more exciting than it is now. This was because there was an intellectual dimension to the art of the possible that has since gone missing. One wrote about the machinations of personalities, as now, and about policies as they were being implemented. However, one also wrote about ideas – privatisation, deregulation, reform of the welfare state and of local government finance, to name but a few. They were all ideas directed at increasing personal liberty at the expense of state control. They were certainly not about aggrandising politicians or bureaucrats.
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