Heavy stuff. More?
Having lived in apartheid South Africa I do not like ‘ethnic origin’ questionnaires in today’s United Kingdom which use racial categories creepily reminiscent of the apartheid regime’s odious Population Registration Act. After years working for the British public service and living across communist and post-communist Europe I have views on what the state sector in the UK and indeed anywhere else can and cannot do well. And I have views on where ‘civilisation’ comes from and who its enemies are these days. If it makes you happy to put people in trite little boxes, mark me down as an old-fashioned but creative libertarian realist.
