Patrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about Enoch Powell
The latest Patrick Crozier/Brian Micklethwait recorded conversation is now up and listenable-to. We talk about Enoch Powell, of whom Patrick writes: Enoch Powell was a prominent politician in the 1960s...
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James Tooley talks about Really Good Schools
I’ve just listened to the whole of this podcast (which I encountered here), in which Paul E. Peterson talks (for a little over forty minutes) with one of my most favourite public intellectuals on the...
View ArticlePatrick posted our conversation about Steve Stewart-Williams and evolution (...
I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
View ArticleToday Patrick and I had another conversation about World War One
We had already decided that our chat today would be about what kicked off World War One. However, as part of my homework for this, I listened again to this earlier conversation we recorded about World...
View ArticleThe latest conversation with Patrick Crozier is now up
I only started deciding what to put here today quite late on. What should I say here today? Then, to rescue me, incoming from Patrick Crozier, telling me that our latest recorded conversation is now...
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Adding Wembley to the big model of London
i’ve always liked that big model of London at the Building Centre in Store Street. Well, it’s not there any more. But, relax. It’s moved, to King’s Cross. And, there’s now more of it than there used to...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk sport
Yes, the latest recorded conversation between me and Patrick Crozier is up. It’s about sport. My pet theory, that the rise of professional sport and the ending (for now (fingers crossed)) of great wars...
View ArticleAnother talk with Patrick
I seem to be settling down to doing one post here, every week, on a Monday. That feels like something I can do, without threatening the Samizdata writing, so here is this week’s posting. But what...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about Northern Ireland
Sadly, even doing a posting every Monday, which I vaguely remember hoping to do, has proved more than I can conveniently manage. My apologies to all those who still seem to be dropping by here on the...
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