Now here’s a curious story, concerning an artwork by ‘Banksy’ – the anonymous, but highly successful, street artist. It concerns a piece entitled Slave Labour, which was sprayed on to the side of Poundland shop last year. To much consternation, the mural was subsequently removed by the owners of the building, with a view to […]
Writing for City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple draws a brilliant parallel between the law on drugs and speed limits (yes, that’s right, between the prohibition on one kind of speed and the restriction on the other): "On the matter of drugs, libertarians argue that it is no business of the state to tell citizens what to take or […]