Rand and Patel
We have our own Ayn Rand. We have a Home Secretary cast in her image. We have Priti Patel.
In praise of postal workers
Are schools and hospitals really in danger, as one modern-day follower of Ayn Rand claims, of being taken over by ‘unionised postal workers’? Should Covid-19 not have made us realise, if we hadn’t already, that postmen and women, delivery workers, shop workers, warehouse workers, lorry drivers, home healthcare providers and childcare workers deserve both adequate pay and our respect?
“Anthem” and “Nineteen Eighty-four”
Ayn Rand’s early novella ‘Anthem’ is often compared with George Orwell’s ‘;Nineteen Eighty-four’. There are some rather significant differences.
The UKs Randian wannabees
In a recent article in The Observer, Andrew Rawnsley turned his attention to the three people who are at this moment taking the UK wherever it is going (or, quite possibly, wherever its constituent nation are independently going).
Rand and race
It is often said in Ayn Rand’s favour that she was not a racist . But is that true?
Randian medicine
One thing that a pandemic does is concentrate the mind on essentials, the availability of medical care being about the most essential of all. Here in the UK most medical care is provided to most people by the National Health Service, but ‘socialized medicine’ was, of course, anathema to Ayn Rand.