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Jonathan Goodchild

Jonathan Goodchild

Accountability in public life

I had an interaction a while ago (May 2018, to be precise) on Twitter with the former Labour MP Tom Harris, who wrote this piece in the…

Sep 28, 2018

Sep 28, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

Immigration and Discrimination

The great Islamic historian and philosopher of the 14th century, Ibn Khaldun, who can claim to be the father of social science (and also…

Sep 28, 2018

Sep 28, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

The Guilt of the Anointed

Tim Stanley writes in the Telegraph (£) about how we need to address the ills that fuel “far-right” populism, instead of just fretting…

Sep 4, 2018

Sep 4, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

The Self-Righteousness of the Oppressed

I wonder how many other than myself have noticed one of the side effects of the Ctrl-Left’s Hierarchy of Privilege and Victimhood.

Aug 22, 2018

Aug 22, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

The Impossibility of Social Justice

There’s a joke — or perhaps just a wry observation about life — that in order to be happy, one must have 3 things: Health, Wealth and Time…

Aug 17, 2018

Aug 17, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

Populism and Virtue-Bullying

Status and reputation are more important to most human beings than truth (if anyone doubts that assertion, it is demonstrated by Professor…

Aug 10, 2018

Aug 10, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

Brexit Naivety and Disingenuousness

I have come to the conclusion that both the UK Government and Liberal Leavers (among whose numbers I count myself, even if I can’t claim to…

Jul 30, 2018

Jul 30, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

What is Constrained Liberal Fraternal Dispersalism?

For a while now, I have been calling myself a Fraternal Dispersalist in my Twitter profile, partly because (as far as I am aware) I am the…

Jul 2, 2018

Jul 2, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

What is Über-Liberalism?

Having been slightly surprised, and perhaps even mildly discombobulated, at being described as being an Über-Liberal recently by someone…

May 8, 2018

May 8, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

Confusing Centrist Dads

I have only recently come across the term “Centrist Dad”. There is one person who uses it to describe himself on Twitter, not someone I…

May 8, 2018

May 8, 2018

Jonathan Goodchild

Jonathan Goodchild

Believer in the natural rights of Life, Liberty and Property; admirer of the Enlightenment values of Toleration, Science and Scepticism.

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