Mr. Cobden on banking
byBankers’ Magazine Vol I April-October 1844 – H/T Sean Corrigan The author of an interesting work published a short time since, entitled “Sir Robert…
Richard Cobden
John Bright: The “Angel of Death has Been Abroad” Speech – A Poetic Anti-War Masterpiece
byJohn Bright and Richard Cobden are forever associated because they were both industrial capitalists, Corn Law Reform free traders, Anti War campaigners, and founders…
Sound familiar? A Challenge to Tribal Politics
byPeter Joyce and Geoffrey Sell describe an Eton and Oxford educated Party Leader thus: A long-term opponent of statism, the view that social advance…
Cobden on Free Trade and its Relevance Today
byFood is on the whole cheap to us as an advanced or even a post industrial nation. Richard Cobden, with a small group of…
Why I Founded the Cobden Centre
byI founded the Cobden Centre inspired by the writing of F A Hayek, particularly his reference in “Denationalization of Money: the Argument Refined” (IEA,…
Comparing Powerful Words
byChris Neal offers a personal perspective on bloated EU regulation. I am reading ‘God Stories’, a wonderful book by Andrew Wilson and last night…
“The State is a severe mother”
byFrom Lord Welby’s preface to The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, 1903 (PDF): The State is a severe mother. She demands from her noblest…
CentreRight: Manchesterism
byVia CentreRight: Manchesterism, ConservativeHome explores the ideas shared by our inspiration, Richard Cobden: Most of us in the South associate “the North” politically as…
Online Library of Liberty – Richard Cobden
byThanks to The Online Library of Liberty, Richard Cobden’s works are now available from our downloads page: Cobden was a member of the British Parliament…