Lord Frost considers how Labour's paternalistic policies resonate with a nation oscillating between a 'nanny state' and the call for individual responsibility.
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A German discount supermarket is 'educating' lower-income shoppers about the environmental impact of food by raising prices on some goods to reflect their 'true' environmental cost. Eugyppius tries to contain his scorn.
The WHO now thinks that artificial sweeteners don't help with weight loss and may be dangerous, contradicting its previous advice. So how do we know it's got it right this time?
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This is truly the bonanza year or two for leftists. They got several wonderful gifts starting around January of 2020. They got the novel coronavirus, our all-too-familiar COVID-19. They got civil unrest. They got lockdowns. They already had a massive percentage of the American population thinking they are victims. They have had massive success in […]
In Part I of this series, we gave our readers access to a fascinating interview given by Ben Shapiro and Piers Morgan on August 18th, 2019. Piers gives a fascinating and honest assessment of what has become of liberalism, while yet retaining his identity as a liberal. In this second part, we will offer the significant timestamps and points or topics addressed and some summary analysis.
When government usurps the rights of parentsMichael Hoffman’s comment: In any society where the Bible, its statutes, judgments and morality, are not esteemed and held in authority, the government will usurp the rights of the parents and before long, the power of life and death itself. Many white liberals, who pride themselves on rescuing cats and dogs from animal shelters, are persuaded that the “population explosion” is, after “climate change,” the chief threat facing the planet.
Alberto Alemanno is an Italian public interest lawyer, author, and activist who has made a name for himself in the EU's capital. He co-founded The Good Lobby – an NGO pretending to lobby for the interest of everyday people – and specializes in risk regulation, public health, consumer rights, food policy, and nudge theory, which enacts surrounding policies to indirectly push consumers into conducting themselves in certain ways.
The British Government now requires restaurants to obtain special permission to serve you your favorite burger. And the FSA doesn’t just want to control where restaurants get their meat from; it also wants to control how they cook it.
"State paternalism operates under the guise of protecting people from themselves using government power; but it always ends in the destruction of liberty, responsibility, and solidarity."
