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
Brian and I don’t talk about the LA Split
Brian and I talk about sport
Brian and I talk about the Origins of the First World War
Brian and I talk about Steve Stewart-Williams and evolution
Brian and I talk about Enoch Powell
Brian and Patrick talk about the divisions within libertarianism
Brian and I talk about what they don't tell you about death
Brian and Patrick chat about the Industrial Revolution
Blast from the Past! Brian and I talk about Emmanuel Todd
Blast from the Past! Antoine Clarke and I talk about the occupation of the Ruhr
Brian and I talk about the French military
Brian and I talk about the lockdown
Brian and I talk about the Vietnam War
Brian and I talk about the Bomber Offensive
Brian and I talk about the Falklands War
Brian and I talk about the First Wold War: what happened next?
Brian and I talk about Christianity
Brian and I talk about Brexit
Brian and I talk about why the West won the Cold War
Brian and I talk about History
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