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Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

“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/

2025-12-09 19:36:28 UTC

“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

2025-12-09 11:25:40 UTC

📢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
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2025-11-04 16:11:25 UTC

A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/the-chancellors-scene-setter-speech
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2025-10-28 16:37:56 UTC

😤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
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2025-10-27 11:19:34 UTC

📣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

2025-10-27 07:28:47 UTC

🗽Who will be the UK’s Milei ?
📣“Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw8qpyvqdo

2025-10-24 17:50:27 UTC

🗽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/
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2025-08-27 14:36:33 UTC

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

2025-08-22 10:39:25 UTC

😱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

2025-07-31 11:10:26 UTC

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

2025-07-24 15:55:36 UTC

🤝 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.
➡ https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/how-not-to-get-ignored-by-your-mp

2025-07-21 18:51:02 UTC

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
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/starmers-absolutism

2025-07-17 15:51:43 UTC

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.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/radical-candour-for-ed-miliband

2025-07-09 13:42:57 UTC

📣I said I oppose wealth taxes.
😡People replied: ‘You’re corrupt. Self-interested. Bought.’”
🤦🏻‍♂️That’s the fundamental attribution error - it’s why people think they are on the moral high ground as they attack viciously.
🔗https://www.theprovocationpeople.com/2025/01/fundamental-attribution-error/

2025-07-04 06:46:09 UTC

A moment of anguish, a crisis of authority
The Chancellor's heart-rending distress in the Commons may have strengthened her position but it seems likely Keir Starmer will need another Chancellor as his strategy collapses.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-anguish-a-crisis-of-authority
https://video.nostr.build/00cbaf19ceed672c8a8dc2693a2943055a8dde1dab297d6ad49c026fd28982ce.mp4

2025-06-26 18:15:39 UTC

A day of wrath for the Labour Whips
Finally, a rebellion they can’t contain through political brute force.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/a-day-of-wrath-for-the-labour-whips

2025-06-24 11:30:28 UTC

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2025-06-24 10:54:48 UTC

New free post: Sound money for the 21st Century
I am a sound money maximalist: look to gold and Bitcoin.
Gold has been made simple. Here's how to navigate cryptocurrency, that is, emerging synthetic commodity money: it's Bitcoin.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/sound-money-for-the-21st-century

2025-06-19 18:04:58 UTC

📻 I’ll be on Times Radio just after 9 to discuss Iran, free speech and other big issues of the day (🥵)
🎧https://www.thetimes.com/radio

2025-06-19 09:51:46 UTC

Growth through credit expansion – a recipe for disaster
Politicians and business leaders love cheap credit: low interest rates create a temporary boom. But when driven by credit creation not real saving, the outcome is necessarily a bust.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/growth-through-credit-expansion-a

2025-06-15 19:35:34 UTC

💡Here’s one to revise and update and translate to TikTok,
https://mises.org/library/book/anti-capitalistic-mentality
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2025-06-14 17:10:45 UTC

📣Finally, the PM announces an inquiry into grooming gangs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/immigration-integration-and-social?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios
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2025-06-14 08:07:44 UTC

On immigration, integration and social cohesion
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/immigration-integration-and-social?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios

2025-06-04 12:05:16 UTC

Why we are Fighting for a Free Future
On elite failure, groupthink and the need for a paradigm shift in political and intellectual life
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/why-we-are-fighting-for-a-free-future

2025-05-23 17:14:29 UTC

Brexit is no longer done. Alas.
Starmer's EU "reset" is worse than I thought. Unwinding it will be no-deal Brexit drama all over again.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/brexit-is-no-longer-done-alas

2025-05-15 12:16:33 UTC

Starmer’s EU reset: liberty bound by the EU
Leaving the EU meant exiting its political and legal jurisdiction – of course. Starmer now looks set to bind us as a partial rule taker. Northern Ireland's Unionists must beware of supporting him.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/starmers-eu-reset-liberty-bound-by

2025-05-14 10:34:40 UTC

🙋‍♀️I was asked last night at an event why I raise climate scenarios.
😡It’s because they are wrong and dramatically mislead policy makers…
💡Via Roger Pielke Jr
https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielkejr/p/how-climate-change-became-apocalyptic?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios

2025-05-12 10:27:56 UTC

📣What a great day to be refreshing my memory of public choice theory via the primer from the IEA - see the final paragraph
🗽Essential reading
https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/public-choice-a-primer
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2025-05-02 08:48:42 UTC

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I quite like having statistics though.

2025-05-02 08:47:58 UTC

Reform are today enjoying a massive win as voters lose faith in both main parties. This could be seen coming in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: money needs reform.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/money-needs-reform?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios

2025-04-20 17:15:24 UTC

Happy Easter!
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2025-04-14 20:26:14 UTC

❤️Book Club loved Bastiat
💡You can too:
📖https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Bastiat%20Collection_4.pdf

2025-04-13 20:35:56 UTC

🤷🏻‍♂️Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
🗽Yes, that’s right: Book Club tomorrow, reading Bastiat.
https://mises.org/library/book/bastiat-collection
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2025-04-13 07:07:11 UTC

😡I was a pariah when I launched the #CostOfNetZero campaign
🤔Today The Times says energy costs have “crippled energy-intensive manufacturers”
📣I’m going to keep saying it: #IToldYouSo
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/its-the-end-of-coal-that-shattered-the-steel-industry-qlhvrbssh

2025-04-12 14:46:36 UTC

Today.
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2025-04-11 10:24:44 UTC

🏪A superb ePOS terminal from Musqet at CheatCode, with seamless Bitcoin integration alongside other payment methods. Outstanding 🏆
https://musqet.tech/in-store-payments/
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2025-04-03 14:09:55 UTC

Barriers to US exports made Trump's tariff policy inevitable when he was re-elected and, by any reading of his former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, this policy was easy to foresee.
Now we are stuck with it, we have to hope those who govern us will react appropriately. If so, Trump may have rescued free trade.
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Tariffs are terrible – but Trump may save free trade
In politics, asking nicely for sound policy based on high principle does not work. Alas. Trump's policy is massively disruptive and potentially hugely damaging: how could good come of it?
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/tariffs-are-terrible-but-trump-may

2025-04-02 12:01:43 UTC

😡People can be extremely hostile when they disagree.
💡That’s why I’m so excited about Professor Paul Dolan’s new book “Beliefism: How to stop hating the people we disagree with”
https://amzn.eu/d/gBlySf4
https://video.nostr.build/8cf3781b6e1230ca9ce1c531f72ba9552bae9b4b20beeee6ac5f76037bb059fa.mp4

2025-03-23 10:00:41 UTC

Extract from a forthcoming paper:
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A life well-lived
For those of us who believe life has purpose higher than mere existence, it seems indisputable that liberty is not some optional accessory; it is the cornerstone on which rests our safety and security, our identity and morality, our relationships, our prosperity and our fulfilment. Whether elaborating natural rights, rebelling against tyranny or making a utilitarian case for prosperity, the classical liberal and conservative tradition holds that each individual must be free to think, speak, act and innovate - provided they do not infringe upon the same freedom of others.
This balance of universal and reciprocal rights and responsibilities under a stable rule of law fosters societies in which virtue can thrive, economic opportunity can flourish and individuals can pursue happiness in ways that are meaningful to them.
In such an environment, we find not the chaos of unbridled license, but the promise of cooperation and the dignity of moral choice - proving once again that liberty is both a moral necessity and a practical framework for enduring human progress.
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2025-03-19 13:32:24 UTC

Talk of a "uniparty" aggravated me. Then I recalled I used to say, "Vote Labservative for same"…
What does history and public choice tell us about parties, their intentions and their actions in power?
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/the-uniparty-benefits-public-choice

2025-03-17 16:14:02 UTC

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2025-03-17 08:54:53 UTC

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2025-03-05 17:29:30 UTC

Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer
This is Reeves’s fundamental problem: our system of social democracy is coming apart as it becomes increasingly unaffordable.
The situation is grave. The post-war settlement is breaking down on all fronts—at home and abroad. It is a great unravelling.
To placate the furious Labour left, Reeves will likely resort to yet more damaging tax rises while cutting welfare and increasing defence spending. The centre-right must respond with clarity and discipline. Any other strategy is a mistake:
• Welcome every spending cut.
• Oppose every tax rise.
New article: Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer
Against all their instincts, Labour are about to turn further right. Centre-right politicians and think tanks must drive them forward in a situation which is more serious than commonly understood.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/right-turn-ahead-for-reeves-and-starmer

2025-03-02 21:05:41 UTC

I love high-minded idealism as much as anyone, but don’t expect it from the USA for a few years.
No amount of fulminating about how President Trump treats President Zelenskyy appallingly by whichever historical comparison will make him behave any differently.
The scene is set for Trump to get all he wants, partly by giving Putin what he wants: a broad slice of Ukraine.
In all its brute ugliness, we just witnessed the USA wield its mighty power to great effect to meet its own ends, ends which Europe was hoping against hope would not materialise.
Expect within weeks for everyone to claim victory as Europe commits to guarantee the peace for a smaller Ukraine, a Ukraine mining minerals for America as America moves on.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/trump-vs-zelenskyy

2025-02-26 17:58:09 UTC

Sometimes it seems we live in a world where every virtue is twisted and perverted into vice.
Love for country is one such virtue, for it is one element which provides for a healthy identity and a basis for those moral sentiments which bind us together as a voluntary community against adversity, both everyday and existential.
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2025-02-17 19:09:34 UTC

🇺🇦 With talk of UK “boots on the ground” in Ukraine to keep any peace, remember the fiasco of Iraq was supposed to have taught everyone what questions to ask.
💡Now would be the time to apply those lessons.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81f19440f0b62305b91a48/TheGoodOperation_WEB.PDF https://image.nostr.build/6737cdcd6fe41a59cf07201f9cb9c05c197389234d245dac9d740b17a696ea53.jpg

2025-02-17 10:54:40 UTC

🙋🏻‍♂️“The methods of money production in society today are profoundly corrupting in ways that would matter to everyone if they were clearly understood.”
📣As gold flows out of the Bank of England and CoinDesk reports on the US National Bitcoin Reserve, here’s my 2014 speech on money
📺Bitcoin, gold and the Bank of England
🗽The most important subject we face is discussed too little: how money is created and how the process corrupts society. My speech on "Money Creation and Society".
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/bitcoin-gold-and-the-bank-of-england https://image.nostr.build/6e986d3abb1e63338c6014e28d6bc9498ad067c2396a955660583feafcb27a0a.jpg https://video.nostr.build/c2ea0ea4be2758f36c9b99ee0821894ff5a6fefd87352f68502a02f65721552d.mp4

2025-02-09 20:31:30 UTC

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Excellent

2025-02-09 19:14:57 UTC

Too soon Nigel. Too soon.
Nigel Farage is now treading a fearful path to grand failure of his own making; today’s “sources close” story tells me he knows it.
The future of our nation already rests on the shoulders of Nigel Farage: he will decide the next government.
He has trapped himself by his success and seems to know it.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/too-soon-nigel-too-soon https://image.nostr.build/e07b1736a79625f2ebee4ba5342ae2e64d6ba53a1ee574ce3f7caa86d1c18992.jpg

2025-02-06 17:12:10 UTC

❓With the post-war social democratic system in collapse as it runs out of young workers to meet pension, health and care obligations, would returning to the EU solve our growth problem?
🤦🏻‍♂️Not a chance.
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2025-01-31 19:12:02 UTC

New article: Compromise
As we left the EU, eventually I did and my word did it hurt. But it was the right decision
The price tarnishes the prize. But you get to keep the prize and that is why it must be done.
We all prefer total and final victory. It is rare. Leaders compromise. And that is tough.
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2025-01-27 19:12:45 UTC

❓Is someone’s birthday coming up?
😂I’ll be glad to help.
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2025-01-27 09:03:37 UTC

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2025-01-22 16:21:09 UTC

👀Yes, that’s right: Journalists - five scenarios
📣You are making the news. Here’s how to survive and win.
5️⃣These are the five key situations with journalists you will face as an MP:
🧻the press release
🧐the proactive individual briefing
😱the unsolicited inquiry
🏉the scrum
🥴lunch
https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/journalists-five-scenarios

2025-01-18 17:31:46 UTC

🔥”Much more usual in politics is scandal or danger to the community.
😡“Politicians are always alleging one thing or another or seeking to juxtapose the burning platform with the sunlit uplands.
🌱“That is the fertile territory on which the politician usually operates.”
🔟Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan: ten rules for working with the Press
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2025-01-18 14:29:20 UTC

I spent 14 years in politics experiencing the “fundamental attribution error”, yet Paul Dolan explained it in the first 30 minutes of his new book, out in May.
That’s why together, The Provocation People can help your business make a step change in fostering cognitive diversity without the downsides.
Please contact us for an initial conversation.
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2025-01-18 09:45:10 UTC

✍🏻Journalists
🤷🏻‍♂️Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan. Ten rules for working with the Press
🐺They will get you if they can. It is in their nature.
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2025-01-15 21:14:55 UTC

Fundamental Attribution Error
How I learned more about the causes of hostility from Prof Paul Dolan in 30 minutes than in 14 years of Parliament
https://www.theprovocationpeople.com/2025/01/fundamental-attribution-error/

2025-01-11 12:52:43 UTC

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You’d have to ask them.

2025-01-11 09:39:52 UTC

🪫Via Energy Dashboard, this morning’s generation mix: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
🔥We need gas. Plenty of it.
💡And a strategic policy of gas to nuclear: https://conservativehome.com/2022/02/23/steve-baker-wanted-a-politically-and-economically-viable-path-to-low-emissions/ https://image.nostr.build/187085fbb9a6d7e45a8761fc478743d83e478fb3ddc2f64b693bb063be4eba5c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1577fe951dc4403d983c8c8f6a5e2d6724138394075e4b91a42277c7aa1e9235.jpg https://image.nostr.build/255692fa07f5a9fa29882fc59a9170c5f4b6f01d0bdcf2ca18dcc0ef465739f7.jpg

2025-01-10 15:56:59 UTC

🎙️“Funnily enough, I’m not the famous one!”
🤷🏻‍♂️ Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the curse of easy answers - me for The Rundown with PoliticsHome, wherever you get your podcasts https://video.nostr.build/130ee01f049e7833db5a7ff7b2d3bcc65874753ef4a30bbd6edbb4f212d582ea.mp4

2025-01-07 20:20:22 UTC

🗽The business cards are in: one for me and one for the Director of Fighting for a Free Future, Harry Richer
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2025-01-07 10:03:16 UTC

Zero tolerance: the politics of child sexual exploitation by gangs
Politicians, officials and the police must show an absolute commitment to the rule of law, including equal application, plus the courage staunchly to defend victims and the innocent.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/zero-tolerance-the-politics-of-child

2025-01-06 12:00:00 UTC

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2025-01-06 09:46:24 UTC

Whipping Yarns: A rebel whip's tale - A conversation with former MP Steve Baker
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2025-01-05 12:38:06 UTC

⛓️‍💥“We need to break out of this idea that there's one size fits all, that there's a consensus around things. We need to be listening to different perspectives to really make better and effective decisions.”
🗣️Paul interviews Steve on his podcast Breaking Beliefism
🔗https://shows.acast.com/66fec64f63073ba71b9d5f4f/677699b3a1ad7348eb399f2e https://video.nostr.build/62d64e71b88dcb1a1a73416d09f1bf7609e2d323a7aa1161cfa93110a2149d06.mp4 https://video.nostr.build/62d64e71b88dcb1a1a73416d09f1bf7609e2d323a7aa1161cfa93110a2149d06.mp4 https://video.nostr.build/62d64e71b88dcb1a1a73416d09f1bf7609e2d323a7aa1161cfa93110a2149d06.mp4

2025-01-04 20:57:18 UTC

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Ok. All lost on me. I don’t listen to podcasts usually.
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/G4C9o0YlxkOJEn54I4AW

2025-01-04 12:55:11 UTC

😂”Be really, really, really clear that your resolution is something that is going to make you happier.”
💡 Paul Dolan explains how to be happier by design through your New Year resolutions as we discuss his Breaking Beliefism podcast with me:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/breaking-beliefism/id1777795490?i=1000682489522 https://video.nostr.build/8066fb25934fefc2b74607f437ba61f4db42faf0fdbaffa3786bb617f2e14f5e.mp4

2025-01-03 18:46:40 UTC

😊I’m incredibly proud of the range and quality of this conversation with Paul Dolan about how organisations and individuals can benefit from collaborating with those they disagree with.
😄Enjoy! https://video.nostr.build/14d2a019026d09e7f90bdccc7126a5a0aa36d4dac7ef8a838998e980c3d98567.mp4

2024-12-31 20:23:06 UTC

Happy new year and Godspeed for 2025! https://image.nostr.build/45fe025434366525c85ef66448fb2607288ed9feb8a652c22d077b946f391d04.jpg

2024-12-24 17:30:59 UTC

Merry Christmas! https://image.nostr.build/383a22eb93b4de4abe694d4bf1f629b0e7ffc857a59dca393b5b4b47734973a0.jpg

2024-12-22 17:54:25 UTC

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That was supposed to have these images. 🙄 https://image.nostr.build/e6edfb442819216246a47600b19bcbfb176e8f8d57caf412546ca555d390f435.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b34853658bfe1c7e201c82bba961a567356cf31853cd658a89098f8d5fe8776d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/383a22eb93b4de4abe694d4bf1f629b0e7ffc857a59dca393b5b4b47734973a0.jpg

2024-12-22 17:53:36 UTC

Evolution of an idea.

2024-12-15 16:00:15 UTC

Free trade nation
Today, it is possible for an interventionist world to enjoy free trade without anti-democratic political integration. It is a transformational success of global significance won at unnecessarily great cost. I am proud to have played my part in it.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/free-trade-nation

2024-12-14 14:08:37 UTC

❌ DON’T CANVASS ME!
🗳️I’m voting for West #Wycombe’s local Conservative champion Dominic Barnes
😊 https://image.nostr.build/9c02867100111e877cb7a4576fdddf65c7db792af21c23b762c3ccec365d17d9.jpg

2024-12-11 17:39:11 UTC

🥊War minus the shooting
👨🏻‍🏫A practical strategy for libertarian politics, derived from a talk for Students for Liberty
🗽https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/war-minus-the-shooting https://image.nostr.build/dbab04d47482d30a93149e87a56e963967d4d3d7f795054b71840f8d8a14b02c.jpg

2024-12-11 17:38:16 UTC

https://x.com/stevebakerfrsa/status/1866899323255947295?s=46&t=d-LvP9Y9cQcb1wjwMCYNqA

2024-12-07 16:15:25 UTC

🗽Many thanks to Students for Liberty for the opportunity to speak with you about practical libertarian political strategy: purpose, methods and intellectual equipment
✊Please keep up the good fight - I’m counting on you 🫡 https://image.nostr.build/617c9f583a7a7bebd4f44db12e852190e1291048b680066bdaab071a911a91e9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4c6e2f46401661ea589542be41ccbafc3339c288c3572be41898fa62796898cf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db20c73725492523cd19f7becd3cfda2700e935ca5b423c506921a3f382c1f38.jpg

2024-12-04 11:53:27 UTC

💦🇲🇼Pump Aid is bringing safe water to over 230,000 people in Malawi's rural Central Region
💷Your donation can help reach their Big Give target of £50,000 and extend their impact even further
🙏Please join me in contributing today using the link below.
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002TPUbYAAX

2024-12-02 12:08:55 UTC

📺 Enjoyed my (for the moment) regular Monday morning on GB News
❓How did we do? https://image.nostr.build/f7e358923fde182f95076196a7f64a60575941167d84f197eb8620e0dd8d3afe.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bbf9d36cbb5fa2e80ec77ecfe38e446fb578a65ac758c09e4a4a5a89f474a8eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1cdf9800c803cb9a18db9615f0936a1259ea72767236c24e567540b1375cea51.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6483bf18e63e13567880458a2afa6f5a2a5e096cf019dfee3f0cedb9745bfb2e.jpg

2024-11-29 15:20:56 UTC

*We can get off the road to serfdom*
Entrepreneurs will lead the way to freedom as the pace of social progress accelerates through current and new technologies which create opportunities for a free society undreamt of by our forebears.
https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/we-can-get-off-the-road-to-serfdom https://image.nostr.build/0de5ecf3a5e7d1e264d0e320ef9fa010baf48128536ec8a9d628f08785da69fb.jpg

2024-11-28 21:05:52 UTC

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Not as far as I know

2024-11-26 11:05:02 UTC

😊Could social media be made happier by design? Can companies break out of groupthink while avoiding conflict?
💡Professor Paul Dolan and I think so.
🎙️We discuss X-odus: people leaving X for other platforms. Could Elon Musk do something about it? We think so.
📺Full discussion: https://youtu.be/kgB4bWocKnc?si=rZkE6MjXCR4P3mXs

2024-11-25 20:05:46 UTC

😇In every generation, kind souls are seduced by socialism’s utopian promise of heaven on earth.
🩸In his excellent new book, @GilesUdy restates the truth: socialism means poverty and oppression, misery and mass murder.
📖At Dawn They Came: https://amzn.eu/d/e9oZBH9

2024-11-25 12:03:05 UTC

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Thanks - glad to be involved. 14 years in parliament diverted me.

2024-11-25 11:18:45 UTC

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Many thanks to everyone who has zapped me! An unexpected joy! 🍻

2024-11-25 10:52:17 UTC

🤝I am delighted to join Axiom as an advisor.
💡Find my paper for Axiom here: https://www.axiombtc.capital/honest
🗣️”The importance of a social safety net which works is obvious. The consequences of one which is chronically unaffordable should now be heaving into view. The importance of sound money to a just and equitable market economy deserves further elaboration.”

2024-11-25 09:54:34 UTC

🗣️”The incoming Trump administration has announced its intention to back a “strategic Bitcoin reserve”. That catapults what was once a fantastical thought experiment, one to be stumbled upon in obscure online message boards, to a major issue in global geopolitics and the financial system.
❓“Financial institutions and governments now must answer whether Bitcoin is part of a speculative bubble inflated by easy money or part of the answer to it.”
🗽I firmly believe #BTC is part of the solution and I’m proud to join Axiom today as an advisor.
🔗https://www.cityam.com/trumps-election-means-its-time-to-take-bitcoin-seriously/

2024-11-25 09:34:13 UTC

🎄The GB News Christmas trees are standing by. I’ll be on with Andrew and Ellie from 10:20 📺 https://image.nostr.build/ee714e9a38b9c0e54d60919f4e06603a7c7d0c0a4cc9e32938192d3cefd6f7eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6ea694a444ddc6bab3f841279ff072ae1d3bfbac99f937b4ff0af3427ebdfc1e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7cd70ee5db07fbd0496c7eca78af243701e877d819f8984a352e793387b19738.jpg

2024-11-25 09:03:31 UTC

https://www.cityam.com/trumps-election-means-its-time-to-take-bitcoin-seriously/

2024-11-24 21:10:33 UTC

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🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-11-24 21:10:15 UTC

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Please see my Substack.
I’m not on a mission to persuade you or anyone else. I’ve made my case. People can take it or leave it.

2024-11-24 21:08:53 UTC

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I am what I am, yes. But if you form unrealistic expectations of what an individual can achieve, you will always be disappointed.
Psalm 146:3 refers

2024-11-24 21:01:39 UTC

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People who want government reflecting the principles of a free society need to join and stay in the Conservative Party.
That isn’t very popular. An old saying is, “In democracies, electorates get the government they deserve.” 🤷🏻‍♂️
I’ll be doing what I can in public life and private business but the state has power over us all and there’s only one way to steer and diminish it.
Again, I won’t lie to you.
Http://Insight.stevebaker.info

2024-11-24 20:48:53 UTC

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Again, it’s just not how politics works. You can’t force MPs out 1-by-1. Labour have massive power at least until the PM decides to have an election in about 2029.
I won’t lie to you. It’s among the reasons I am less popular than some. I lift the lid on politics on my Substack. People can believe what I write from first hand experience or not. I can’t force you.
🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-11-24 20:23:53 UTC

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If you think I’m new to sound money, you haven’t been following my work.
EG, 2010 maiden speech:
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2010/06/an-honest-money-maiden-speech/
And I led the first parliamentary debate on the monetary system since the 1844 Bank Charter Act:
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2014/11/money-creation-and-society-debate-in-full/
There’s plenty more. I’ve nothing to prove on this front. A long record speaks for itself.

2024-11-24 20:03:22 UTC

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It’s a good stunt but the chance of it leading to an election is zero.

2024-11-24 10:59:29 UTC

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It’s definitely the worst system for governing a country, apart from all the others that have been tried from time to time.