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...whether ordinary Russians should be held culpable for the war that the Russian president Vladimir Putin has inflicted on the people of Ukraine, it is good to recall the example of the great English radical Richard...
...A few hundred yards away in St Ann’s Square, a group of police officers surveyed the bunches of sunflowers and roses placed at the foot of the statue to Richard Cobden, one of the city’s most famed Victorian...
...John Stuart Mill believed commerce was making war obsolete, while the pacifist and anti-imperialist Richard Cobden, campaigner for the repeal of the Corn Laws, declared: “I see in the free-trade principle...
...“Free trade is God’s diplomacy,” he said in a speech at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, quoting Richard Cobden, a 19th-century campaigner for free trade....
...Despite these indignities, Richard Cobden, Victorian liberal reformer and MP, stands four-square against the oncoming traffic, his right hand clutching a rolled up document — the treaty that prompted the...
...Simon Schama, in his excellent article on Richard Cobden (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 2), is headed with a photo of himself standing under the statue of Richard Cobden in Mornington Crescent....
...Richard Cobden, the corn law opponent, was right then and would be right now. It is worth stressing just how ludicrously subsidised farming has been....
...But, I should say it is rather cheeky to annex Richard Cobden’s name to the Remainer cause....
...In 1841 Richard Cobden entered the House of Commons to represent the Anti-Corn-Law League, explaining that: “You speak with a loud voice when you are talking from the floor of the House, and if you have...
...Sir Robert Peel had become privately convinced of the rightness of free trade, not actually needing a prod from Richard Cobden....
...In the 1840s, Richard Cobden and John Bright showed how lower corn tariffs would improve the standard of living of the poorest in society, let alone the “just about managing”....
...In part, this is because of a superficial grasp of British economic history, where they think everything is as easy as Richard Cobden popping over to Paris to sign a deal and still getting home for supper...
...The thought resonated across the channel and morphed into the liberal internationalism championed in the 19th century by the English free trader and anti-imperialist Richard Cobden....
...He thought it necessary to place him back in the city which he had described so graphically, to provide a contrast to the statues of local figures, some of whom — like Richard Cobden and John Bright, the...
...Cobden, some leading Quakers, the president of Oberlin College and the utopian philanthropist Robert Owen....
...The high tide of this liberal internationalism came in the mid-19th century with the textile manufacturer and politician Richard Cobden, who with John Bright led the free trade campaign for the repeal of...
...A less-celebrated, but nevertheless influential 19th-century politician was Richard Cobden, a British manufacturer who led the anti-corn law protests....
...In the 19th century, the economic liberal Richard Cobden extended the argument, saying that the principle of free trade would not only remove the desire to build empires, armies and navies but lead to benign...
...And what is one to say of Richard Cobden, the great English Liberal statesman, who wrote in 1847, “how much unnecessary solicitude and alarm England devotes to the affairs of foreign countries; with how...
...Thus did Richard Cobden, 19th century proponent of unilateral free trade, warn his fellow countrymen that the rising prosperity of the US would soon sweep British global supremacy away....
...The classic case for competitive markets and free trade was made centuries ago by thinkers such as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Richard Cobden who never expected markets to clear instantly or their participants...
...In fact, many of the most distinguished British radicals such as Thomas Paine, William Cobbett and Richard Cobden spent much of their energies attacking the state of their day....
...The Manchester School of Richard Cobden and John Bright invented the radical laissez-faire liberalism of free enterprise and civic activism that made Manchester one of first great global cities and led the...
...hero was Charles James Fox, the 18th-century Whig libertarian politician, and his most prized possession was a miniature of Fox, which contained a lock of his hair, painted by the deaf and dumb artist Richard...
...As a devotee of Richard Cobden, the 19th-century English statesman, who was on the side of liberty and human rights but who cautioned against intervening in distant parts on the basis of little real knowledge...
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