Disclaimer time. If you're looking for an explanation of the ins and outs of TCP/IP or packet switching this is not the podcast for you. This is about how Brian has used printers, photocopiers and the internet down the years to get the libertarian message across. The key thing - for Brian, at least - has been how to keep the costs down.
Along the way, we talk about LA Pamphlets, Brian and the libertarian big cheeses, universities in the late 1960s, the Royal Festival Hall's dreadful acoustics, how to sell tickets to student plays, the difference between the Libertarian Alliance and other free market think tanks and Crossrail. We even manage to find time right at the end to talk about Deidre McCloskey.
Brian quotes
"I've learnt from experience that when people say things in public they generally mean them."
"I was just observing the absurd antics of the Lenins with hair who were infesting this university in this completely delusional state of mind."
"The Royal Festival Hall was built at a sort of 2000-year low in acoustic competence."
“…look at Boris Johnson. You get the impression that his latest wife occupies about half of his head.”
“Most men are very frightened about boring people about what they do and tend to be very evasive about it.”
Notes
Why is America saying "no" to the Japanese?
Give them the money!
Mussolini wins
Farcical sentences
Trams in Trouble
Week Ending 23 March 1924
Week Ending 16 March 1924
Week Ending 9 March 1924
Week Ending 2 March 1924
Week Ending 24 February 1924
Week Ending 17 February 1924
Communist Russia, Tram Cars and the Gold Standard
A Dive into the Times and Life of Woodrow Wilson
Week Ending 27 January 1924
Week Ending 20 January 1924
Three weeks Ending 13 January 1923
The World a Hundred Years Ago
Week Ending 23 December 1923
Week Ending 16 December 1923
Week Ending 9 December 1923
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