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February 9, 2021 8.00pm
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Peter Riley of Penrith writes: “Watching the PM sitting in the cockpit of one of our new fighter jets and written on the frame holding the canopy, in capital letters, is “DO NOT CUT CANOPY WITHIN 3 INCHES OF CANOPY FRAME”. Presumably it’s because there are explosives for a quick ejection but inches, feet, yards, rods, poles, perches and the rest haven’t been taught in Australian schools for 50 years. Could everyone under 60 years of age in the RAAF estimate three inches in a hurry? Why did we buy the imperial model?”
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2020 was a tough year for everyone. The countryside, our local parks and gardens have been our salvation, nature our anti-depressant. Which is why the Wharfedale Naturalists Society wanted to celebrate the diversity of plant and wildlife here in the dale. Asking its members to join in their first-ever Christmas plant hunt and birding competition. Aiming to end 2020 on a high, looking forward to happier times ahead. The task was to record as many plants in flower (excluding those in gardens) or birds seen either in the garden or countryside over the festive period (starting Saturday, December 19, and finishing Sunday, January 3). Everyone was asked to keep within the spirit of the times and restrictions, submitting records from within five miles of their home, as the crow flies.
The legacy of English journalist and “self‐taught economist”
[1]Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) naturally lends itself to scholarly debate: a principled defender of labor and an opponent of capitalism,
[2] he was at the same time a radical champion of free‐market competition and the rights of the individual, consistently opposing state power and intervention in all areas of social and economic life.
In Alberto Mingardi’s latest book,
Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin, the political historian undertakes to shed new light on this “largely unknown figure.” It may come as something of a surprise to libertarians that Hodgskin is so unsung in the halls of higher learning. Mingardi’s book is a welcome entry, perhaps the most thorough yet, in a catalog of works that have set out to position Hodgskin more firmly in a current of classical liberalism and free‐market economic thought running from Ada