Andy Duncan, Author at Free Life: Recent Episodes
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Among the British libertarian scene, there has been a mixed response to Boris Johnson’s resignation from Downing Street, though as we speak, he’s still holed up there like a sacked David Brent in ‘The Office’. Speaking purely from a personal point of view, here’s a few things Boris might’ve done differently to have made it […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK I was recently interviewed by Klaus Bernpaintner and Jesper Bleeke at Mises Sweden, on the subject of Brexit. Alas, during the one hour and twenty minute interview, when asked about what drives the Remainers in the UK, I absolutely failed to mention ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. A classic opportunity spurned! […]
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By Andy Duncan Is the Financial Times going all Austrian on us? The overall trend in global societal time preferences has been declining for thousands of years, as civilisation has grown and spread, particularly from ancient and classical Greece, which had writing, money, robust law, and best of all, an enduring tradition of freedom. But […]
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By Andy Duncan Well, what to make of Das Boot, the TV series sequel to the original classic 1981 movie with the great Jürgen Prochnow? Well, it’s tricky, as it’s only just finished here in England, and many of you may have failed to see it yet, so I’ll try to avoid spoilers, though some […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK Review of the New ‘Das Boot’ TV Series, Episode 1, ‘Neue Wege’: [Spoilers ahead, you have been warned.] If Karl Marx knew what he was doing, when he unleashed the twentieth century upon us from his venomous seat in the British Library, an avowed century of socialism and […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK Back in 1998, I was working in the filthy world of trade. I’d received this book from Mises.org one morning and had to wait until lunchtime before I could read it. I then sat in my car in a dreary supermarket car park and opened it up. It took […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK Are we beginning to witness more of a sea-change in the world? We see President Donald Trump in the United States attempting to roll back some of the American state. We see Chancellor Sebastian Kurz attempting to roll back some of the Austrian state. And now we see […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK If a private security company closed down an airport for 24 hours and cancelled hundreds of flights because of a ‘drone’ threat, and then later discovered that its own drones were providing that threat, it would quite rightly be tossed out on its ear and lose its contract. […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice Chairman of Mises UK If someone gave me a gold sovereign for every time in my life I had heard a variation on the following phrase, then in the words of Private James Frazer, from Dad’s Army, I would now be an extremely wealthy man. Here’s the general phrase that you […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK I’ve just spent the last ninety minutes reading an amazing short book by Étienne de la Boétie, written in 1553, on the nature of how the state gains mass obedience and on how we can reduce and then eliminate the state by reducing and eventually eliminating that obedience […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK Democrats in the United States are now demanding war, death, and destruction in the Middle-East, in places most of them would be unable to point to on a globe. Why? Because Donald Trump is trying to reduce war, death, and destruction in the Middle-East, or at least he’s […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK As John the Baptist to the Jesus Christ of Hans-Hermann Hope, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn forms an essential reading component of any modern Miseo-Rothbardo-Hoppeian. As a Renaissance gentleman swimming in a sea of kleptocratic fools – perhaps whilst holding his head aloft and smoking a fine Cuban cigar – […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK The national socialists were socialists, shock! This is as described by Sir Norman Tebbitt in a recent Daily Telegraph article: “It is either delusional or deceitful to call the Nazi or Fascist parties “Right wing”. There could hardly be any more clear example of the tin containing exactly […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK With the PFS 2018 conference rapidly coming up at Bodrum, I thought it might be worth dusting off an interview I did a couple of years ago with a friend of mine, Greg Moffitt, from the Legalise Freedom podcast. Greg had earlier contacted Professor Hoppe to ask whether […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK I used to be a singer in a rock and roll band. Well, okay, maybe not, but I was a lead guitarist in a punk rock band. I even had my Fender copy tuned so I could play the major rock chords with a single sliding finger, just […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK I possess three brain cells. One is concerned with food and beer, particularly Sam Adams light, the black stuff from Guinness, and any full strength export lager originating from Sweden. The second brain cell is concerned with personal visions of a possible future in a couple of thousand […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy fans will remember the ultimate cocktail drink; the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Imbibing this infectious blend was like being hit in the head by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. But does the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster remain the […]
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On Show 28 of the Mises UK Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks to Professor Guido Hülsmann about a new forthcoming book that he’s working on, based on the concept of a free lunch, or rather the political economy of gratuitousness. In a packed interview, along the way we also cover a pertinent encyclical by Pope Benedict […]
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On Show 27 of the Mises UK podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Sean Gabb about his newly-published book: ‘Radical Coup: A Case for Reaction’. We concentrate on the main idea mapped out within it, which is Sean’s ‘frontal attack’ plan for taking English society and culture back away from a tax-eating statist Guardian-Reader elite, and […]
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On Show 26, Andy Duncan speaks with Doctor Andreas Tiedtke, from Mises Deutschland, about the Misesian praxeology of ten different individual state taxes, and how each type has different negative effects upon human behaviour. They examine how each one of these taxes wreaks its own particular kind havoc upon a free society, starting with the […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK Well, I suppose I always knew that it was logically possible for England to become a tyrannical third world socialist tinpot dictatorship. However, it’s still been emotionally quite a blow to realise that we’ve now officially sunk down to the same ignominious level as North Korea. When I […]
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On Show 25, Andy Duncan speaks with one of our Mises UK Faculty members, Doctor Matteo Salonia, who lectures at King’s College in London, in early modern history, from the 15th century to the French Revolution. He’s also author of the recent book, ‘Genoa’s Freedom’. They talk about the influence of Niccolo Machiavelli, the infamous […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), or as I prefer to call them, the Institute for Fiscal Stupidity, have proposed a 10% rises in UK taxes to further feed the ravenous maw of the useless Black Hole otherwise known as the communist National Health Service (NHS). What kinds […]
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On Show 24 of the Mises UK Podcast, with host, Andy Duncan, we speak with our Caledonian man in Edinburgh, David Farrer, the power behind the throne on the ‘Freedom and Whisky’ blog site. We talk about the current state of Scotland as regards freedom, whisky, socialism, and secession, given the failure of the 2014 […]
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On Show 23 of the Mises UK Podcast, with regular host, Andy Duncan, we speak with Helio Beltrão, the founder and president of ‘Instituto Mises Brasil’, about the recent 200-year celebration of Karl Marx’s birth. We also cover the success that Mises Brasil has had spreading the ideas of Mises within Brazil and also, and […]
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On Show 22 of the Mises UK Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with the Reverend Rory McClure, a Free Church Pastor for an independent evangelical church, about the subject of inequality in society, and how inequality measures up within Christianity. We touch upon Marx, the Old Testament, the New Testament, Pope Francis, socialism, and diversity. Sponsored […]
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On Show 21 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, Andy Duncan spoke with Tho Bishop, the Social Media and Press Editor at Mises.Org, in Auburn, Alabama, about the recent missile attack, on Syria. This was carried out by the U.S., the U.K., and the French governments, following an alleged ‘chemical attack’ on Douma, in Syria, supposedly carried […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK I’ve long been a natural law guy, in the sense that nature has endowed all of us (whether this is via a God, some Gods, or just plain old Darwinian evolution) with a basic set of behaviours we know to be good (e.g. do not steal other people’s […]
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK So, there I was, at Speakers’ Corner, in Hyde Park, at 3pm, on Sunday the 18th of March, 2018. So what was I doing there? Attempting, in my own small way, to defend that most sacrosanct of English monuments to civilisation, peace, truth, freedom, and property, the concept […]
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On Show 20 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, regular host Andy Duncan spoke with Claudio Grass, a Mises Ambassador for the Mises Institute and a precious metals advisor based in Switzerland, about Hayek's ideas on the denationalisation of money. These stem from Hayek's book on this subject first published in 1976. They focussed on the removal of the state from the production of money and the relevancy of Hayek's ideas in this newer age of cryptocurrencies, along with the older monies of gold, silver, and other valuable commodities, possibly also becoming combined with the latest block chain technologies.
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Tonight, on Show 19 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, regular host Andy Duncan spoke with Ryan McMaken, who is editor of both ‘Mises Wire’ and ‘The Austrian’, at the Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, as well as the host on ‘Radio Rothbard’. They spoke about trade wars, trade tariffs, and other such matters, particularly in regard […]
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Tonight, on show 18 of the MisesUK.Org podcast, regular host Andy Duncan spoke with Duncan Whitmore, who was the recent winner of our Mises UK Essay competition and who also spoke at our recent Mises UK conference. They spoke about economics, hard money, monetary inflation, the potential collapse of the EU, Brexit, the glorious Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, the abominable Theresa May PM, Hayek, Mises, the spread of Austrian School economics, localisation, secession, the Holy Roman Empire, the wonder of Switzerland, the British state’s National Health Service, and a few other measly extraneous matters.
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Tonight on Show 17 of the MisesUK.Org Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Tom Rogers about his Mises UK Essay, which was a runner-up in our 2017 Essay Competition. The essay was entitled, 'Oil wars: Is this an accurate summary of US-led interventions in the Middle East of the 21st century?'. We explore that topic in a little more depth, as we approach nearly three decades of heavy western involvement in the Middle East since President Reagan pulled out the U.S. Marines from Lebanon, in 1984. We also talk about the human nature of warfare, the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and the book 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four', by George Orwell, amongst other subjects.
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Tonight on Show 16 of the MisesUK.Org Podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Austrian Economist, Swithun Dobson, about the 'Great British Economy'. They discuss the potential bubble in the British housing market, quantitative easing, British state deficits, the magic money tree of the Bank of England, the immediate future of the Conservative Party's leadership, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and the economic potential of Brexit.
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All of the speeches delivered at this year’s inaugural Mises UK Conference, held at the Amba Hotel at Charing Cross, are available to view in the Youtube playlist below:
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Though ultimately about the future, this will also be a speech that dwells on the past. The first past event that I wish to discuss is what happened in June 2017. When I stood down as Director of the Libertarian Alliance, I was asked if I had taken leave of my senses. I was not visibly broken down by age and ill health. I had evidently not run out of things to say. Why, then, was I steeping aside in favour of a young man who was nearly forty years my junior?...
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Duncan Whitmore on how economic decentralisation contributes towards economic prosperity.
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Swithun Dobson examines the nature of the British economy in the face of its constant interference by the UK government and the Bank of England.
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Jakub Jankowski speaks about the metapolitics of libertarianism and identitarianism in the UK and elsewhere.
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The political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli does not appear to be a pressing problem. Yet, it is with a sense of urgency that I speak to you today. The reinterpretation, and actually, the misinterpretation of this sixteenth-century writer has reached such a level of absurdity in the academia and it starts to be so widespread in popular culture that it’s now influencing even conservative and libertarian circles...
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George Pickering walks through the lessons he's learned from the Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, and how we can apply them to help Mises UK thrive in the future, especially in comparison to organisations such as the Adam Smith Institute, and the Cato Institute.
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We are, I believe, at a turning point in history. I see a glimmer, the tiniest wee glimmer, of the ‘End of Socialism’. So what is socialism? At its core, it’s a religion of theft. And its God is ‘The State’. So what’s ‘The State’? Well, the state is a murderous organised criminal gang, aided and abetted by its intellectual bodyguards who get their cut by masking this criminality...
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Tonight, on our seventh MisesUK.Org podcast, Andy Duncan speaks with Yuri Maltsev, a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute and Professor of Economics in Wisconsin, as well as being an author of numerous books and many Austrian School articles. They compare and contrast President Donald Trump with President Vladimir Putin, examine how economics worked in the late Soviet Union, what Murray Rothbard was like to meet for the first time, and how they believe the future of Austrian Economics will go against Socialism.
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