Alex Massie Alex Massie

Nanny State Critics

Cosmo Landesman can’t meet many libertarian-minded people:

I notice that right-wing critics of the nanny state never call for the legalisation of drugs on the grounds that adults should be free to choose to be addicts or not.

Like Mr Worstall, I do. The rest of Landesman’s article is no better informed than this.

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