🎄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:

https://northamanglican.com/not-a-merry-ding-dong/

“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.

https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/should-the-uk-voluntarily-re-enact

📢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.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/the-chancellors-scene-setter-speech

😤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.

https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/hubris-the-intoxication-of-power

📣This government won’t get away with blaming Brexit in the face of quality journalism like this.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/uk-better-off-without-brexit-fm7bcqhsq

🗽Who will be the UK’s Milei ?

📣“Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw8qpyvqdo

🗽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.

https://www.stevebaker.info/2025/10/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.

https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/ideas-and-action

😱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.

https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/immigration-and-a-good-society

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.

https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/what-would-be-an-authentically-conservative