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Getting grumpy – should I buy a guitar?

Illiberal policies are threatening our hard-won freedoms

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

I find myself doing a lot of head-shaking these days. Does anyone really believe that governments know best? Why do people put up with being bossed around even when they know the rationales for the directives are false? (OK, losing your job, massive fines, being arrested – these things do matter.

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