Your read of the Day

Is Tim Worstall.  If he were on this side of The Pond, you might describe the pelt of his Wookie Suit to be exceptionally long and luxuriant:

In the end though, what you’ve really got to remember is that us neoliberals are in fact liberals. In fact, we’re the only people in the political arena who are consistently liberals. On the conservative side there are most certainly those who would regulate which adults you can voluntarily exchange bodily fluids with. Over on the left, socialist and green, side there are most certainly those who would regulate which adults you can voluntarily exchange economic goods with.

We’re the only people who are arguing that who you fuck and who you trade with is no damn business of the State at all. The only people arguing that you’re an adult, you’re a free adult living in a free country and, well, have fun, eh?

You know, liberals arguing for liberty.

Which is why we get such stick from both left and right of course: both groups being insistent that the proles have to be told what to do by the proper, edumacated, enlightened sort of people who make up said lefts and rights.

And we liberals are out there shouting, as we have been for three centuries now, shouting that aristocracies, whether by birth, self-selection or political power, can simply fuck right off out of the lives of free adults.

And lest you think my term "Wookie Suit" is a slur, here's mine:

 

Mr. Worststall, while inclined to [ahem] adult language, is now a daily read for me.  Should be for you, too, especially if you despair for the chances of the Prisoners Of Mother England, left behind across the sea.