David Davis
… for standing up for individual property rights. More important, even, than clean drinking water for all the world’s children, as advocated nobly and forcefully by Bjørn Lomborg (or is it Lombørg? I don’t know.)
The Devil was merely getting at Private Eye. But the strategically-underlying point he makes is seminal (this is a un-PC banned-word now.)
David Davis
Perhaps we should all pay more attention to Private Eye. Boatang and Demetriou have just admitted to so doing.
I have to confess that, in my (relative) youth as a 20-to-30-something London businessman, and libertarian, who kind of thought he knew what the world was about, I got riled regularly by young chaps with acne, such as Harry Phibbs* and Andrew Roberts*, who would accost me at drinkspotties or in the IEA, saying things like “now Dave, as you will have just (yeh? Me? :-O Yeh!!! (wha’-?) ) read in your Eye….” something-or-other……….
So I consciously did the opposite, and never even opened the flyleaf of any copy of it, from 1969 up to, well, soon now.
*Don’t get me wrong, squire! They’re perfectly normal guys and very rich too! Just that I didn’t think they were at the time, recommending _sotto-voce_ a strange mag printed on what seemed like bog-paper, with bad typesetting and only erratically available at WH Smith/Waterloo Station in the evenings. Perhaps it was I that was at fault.
