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[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Discretionary planning has subjected the country to a tyranny of the aesthetic and financial preferences of the established middle class".

Read Will Lawson's latest piece on the disastrous legacy of the Town and Country Planning Act.

https://t.co/qbFwfqOpmQ

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Free marketeers clearly need alternative arguments against higher taxes ... Enter F. A. Hayek and Murray Rothbard" writes @mrcharlesamos

Against High Taxes: Arguments from Hayek and Rothbard

https://t.co/yMfUCIw5E2

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"This kind of encroachment serves only to drain public finances, alienate smokers, and undermine an individual’s right to enjoy a smoke break."

Read @NewsonTed's latest piece on the Britain's Illegal Tobacco Problem:

https://t.co/GMlpojIRJK

[1828 @1828uk]

“liberty is only truly achieved and protected when the individuals are trusted, not legal texts.
At its core, to be a libertarian is to trust individuals, not institutions.”

✍️Read Benjamin Ko’s “The ‘Quiet Constitution’: for 1828uk.
Link: https://t.co/6ZXwf20S7I

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"As Liberals, we must always defend the right to express ideas, emotions, and opinions, more so from the clutches of the State than anything else."

@Bradley_SJ_ on the role of the state and society in the right to offend 👇
https://t.co/sBzOwyuW7c

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

I've written at @1828uk on how increasingly petty traditional tobacco control proposals distract from more effective strategies to reduce smoking. https://t.co/aqgjtfpteD

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"The pursuit of public health must have a balance between information dissemination and excessive paternalism."

@NannyFreeState on why Canada's new anti-smoking legislation is just smoke and mirrors👇
https://t.co/aLHOsEQhib

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Without such mutual concessions, the India-UK FTA will not realize the potential of a strategic economic partnership."

Dyuti Pandya on why India and Britain need to create tariff-free trade before signing any agreements 👇
https://t.co/zLHC2MYGPQ

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Without such mutual concessions, the India-UK FTA will not realize the potential of a strategic economic partnership."

Dyuti Pandya on why both Britain and India need create tariff-free trade before signing any agreements 👇
https://t.co/zLHC2MYGPQ

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"This must be done by a shift in drug policy and attitudes towards a Portugal-like system, or, even further, a system whereby drugs can be legally supplied and consumed"

@HM_Kucharski on why we need a new approach to drug policy 👇
https://t.co/FDaQYhYgWi

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Without means-testing, £135 million would be diverted from actual teaching – and it is here that the poorest will suffer."

@adamlehodey on the £135 million taxpayer cost of standardised free school meals👇
https://t.co/LNbGUzSQQL

[We Vape @WeVapeUK]

💨“The NHS rightly promotes vaping as a way of reducing smoking prevalence but its messages are being drowned out by irresponsible misinformation.”

Great article by @nannyfreestate in @1828uk 👇

https://t.co/cao4LXQqnw

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Thus, it is clear that Economics needs a different approach to modelling, one akin to engineering. In engineering, problems change, and, as such, solutions must be adapted."

@HM_Kucharski on why Economics needs a modelling overhaul 👇
https://t.co/4fgOuvzsDr

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

I have written at @1828uk on how the UK government is on the right track with its policy on vaping but must counter myths and misinformation by the media, ill-informed health professionals, and politicians. https://t.co/v1AojpoBvc

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"The government urgently needs to back up its astute and evidence-based approach to vaping and other reduced-risk alternatives if it wants to counter the current pernicious narrative.

Martin Cullip on why the government must counter vaping myths 👇
https://t.co/R0w0lup3iB

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Liberty makes all the difference in the world and individualism is by far the greatest gift of civilisation. Young people do not be fooled."

Megi Cara on the hidden similarities between communism and fascism 👇
https://t.co/c4pBmJUJFO

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"We know that a blanket rate cannot properly price in the preferences of an entire market, and distortion of price-signals is the result."

Emile Woolf on the detrimental impacts of monetary tinkering 👇
https://t.co/edplgBIHKf

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"Taking a cue from engineering might be the way forward. Engineers, when faced with a problem, don’t just rely on old templates; they adapt, innovate, and iterate."

@HM_Kucharski on the Bank of England's modelling failure 👇
https://t.co/OuWk8UJEa8

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"The only thing Cameron had to do to make Britain a much better place was to allow people to pile some bricks on top of other bricks."

🏡Read the final part of @iealondon Head of Political Economy @K_Niemietz's alternative history of housing 👇
https://t.co/StSwSywyBu

[1828 @1828uk]

✍️"With Brexit out of the way, he plans to spend the second half of the 2010s to see his housing boom through, and reap the rewards."

🏡Read part four of @iealondon Head of Political Economy @K_Niemietz's alternative history of housing 👇
https://t.co/3tTC826bPG