😱The next election could be rejoin vs no deal
🎙️How Alain Tolhurst summarised points of agreement between me and Anand Menon
🚨This is serious
https://pod.fo/e/41c277
Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA
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Chairman, Fighting for a Free Future | Chief Provocation Officer, The Provocation People | Adviser to Glintpay + Axiombtc | more to follow...
🫣 “The biggest story in climate science in decades has been mostly ignored” – Roger Pielke Jr
Media Coverage (or not) of RCP8.5 RIP
The biggest story in climate science in decades has been mostly ignored
😳A shock to enjoy being interviewed by Matt Forde, who asked all the right questions - hope you like it
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Show 401. Steve Baker
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💡Rule 1: survive to fight.
📣That means complying with the rules, however tedious, in letter and spirit. Never expose a flank. Ask how it will look…
🤦🏻♂️Everyone errs but politicians can’t afford to, especially when likely to be PM.
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024
Reform leader changed his mind about standing as MP after gift from Thai-based crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne
😳Reform UK's candidate for London Mayor Laila Cunningham was incredibly impressive on the podcast.
🤷🏻♂️I won't have a vote...
📣Other candidates welcome!
🎄Tonight, dinner with Glint - such lovely people!
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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:
The North American Anglican
Not a Merry Ding-Dong | The North American Anglican
To use an English working-class phrase, there is a bit of “ding-dong” between Christians this month. Christmas carol services are not usually f...
“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.
Should the UK voluntarily re-enact the bit of Brexit everyone agreed was a terrible idea?
A SKETCH of todays tomfoolery in the Commons by ChatGPT
📢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
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/693707ea74cab922802d3d69/1765214186269/BakerTheWayDown.pdf
A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.
The Chancellor's "scene-setter" speech was hopeless
A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.
😤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.
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.
📣This government won’t get away with blaming Brexit in the face of quality journalism like this.
Would UK be better off without Brexit?
Ministers may be tempted to use it as an excuse for tax rises, but there’s far more to it than that
🗽Who will be the UK’s Milei ?
📣“Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity”
Argentina elections: Javier Milei and his 'chainsaw' austerity win big
Milei's radical spending cuts have won favour with Donald Trump, but also attracted widespread criticism.
🗽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.
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.
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 t...
😱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.
Immigration and a good society
With over 27,000 migrants crossing the Channel illegally in small boats this year and asylum applications reaching a new record, clear thinking is ...
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.
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.
🤝 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.
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How Not To Get Ignored By Your MP
Everyone wishes their MP would listen to them and act on their concerns. Having worked in Parliament for over two years, here are several steps you...
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
Starmer's absolutism
Why it matters and what Labour MPs can do about it
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.
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 imp...