SteveBakerFRSA
Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA
Chairman, Fighting for a Free Future | Chief Provocation Officer, The Provocation People | Adviser to Glintpay + Axiombtc | more to follow...
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Last Notes npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😳A shock to enjoy being interviewed by Matt Forde, who asked all the right questions - hope you like it https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/matt-fordes-political-party/id595312938?i=1000765962692 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😳Reform UK's candidate for London Mayor Laila Cunningham was incredibly impressive on the podcast. 🤷🏻♂️I won't have a vote... 📣Other candidates welcome! https://youtu.be/SWzW2pfmsbQ?si=VKgtntHt8Gq2HMdn npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🎄Tonight, dinner with Glint - such lovely people! 💡 “Gold as Money – Buy, save, send & spend real gold instantly with Glint” glintpay.com npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA “The Church of England’s suspicion of Tommy Robinson’s conversion revives, unwittingly, a very old heresy: Donatism. St Augustine confronted the claim that the moral failings of a minister could nullify the gospel itself.” The UK‘s other Christian Libertarian and a former police officer, my friend Fr. Dan Stork Banks, writes about the carol service organized by Unite The Kingdom: https://northamanglican.com/not-a-merry-ding-dong/ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA “In the Commons today, MPs gathered for the great constitutional question of our age: should Britain voluntarily re-enact the bit of Brexit everyone agreed was a terrible idea?” With apologies to @RobDotHutton, this evening, I idly asked ChatGPT to lampoon today’s tied vote on a customs union. It’s really quite good, so here it is. https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/should-the-uk-voluntarily-re-enact npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📢Economic central planning has always failed and Net Zero rests upon it. 💡No government, even a capable one, can acquire the knowledge required to direct our lives and investments. 🤯The consequences are predictable: declining prosperity, growing coercion and ever more difficulty pursuing happiness. 🗽My paper, out today: Net Zero and the Threat to Human Liberty https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/693707ea74cab922802d3d69/1765214186269/BakerTheWayDown.pdf https://image.nostr.build/cd9e4eb3208ee5d09ce065a9144f4953ec90833c0ce85194d1f6475f05d6f64b.png npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this. https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/the-chancellors-scene-setter-speech https://image.nostr.build/ba75a4ec3a8bec34e167d7433e4736cabe45e13185a1e04c4d954b0f9a612ef1.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😤Hubris: the intoxication of power 💉Power is a drug. Politicians and their courtesans are addicts. Hubris and failure follow. 💡Clinging to humility could make a big difference. https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/hubris-the-intoxication-of-power https://image.nostr.build/cc077fe5b15f060db1e111118f2bed84f2dd3831d24ea7d56a55880a2c5c0c81.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📣This government won’t get away with blaming Brexit in the face of quality journalism like this. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/uk-better-off-without-brexit-fm7bcqhsq npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🗽Who will be the UK’s Milei ? 📣“Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw8qpyvqdo npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🗽Thank you so much to everyone who has expressed support for the Fighting for a Free Future project: you are hugely appreciated! ✊🏻Everyone who supports FFF is part of the movement for free markets and freedom – and there is plenty you can please do to help. https://www.stevebaker.info/2025/10/how-you-can-help-fight-for-a-free-future/ https://image.nostr.build/18ea3770795464e799bfa8ae6be706202f7e5fe5f3bf9a7699cdaa4d87bdc5b5.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Ideas and action How to inspire young voters and unite the country as the managerial age collapses: offer the hope and reality of a better future founded on ideas that work. https://voices.fightingforafreefuture.com/p/ideas-and-action npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😱This week's news stories paint a stark picture of Britain's immigration system in crisis. 😡Idealism won't wash: people are too angry. 💡And yet somehow we must defend and preserve a society in which the people we have continue to feel welcome. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/immigration-and-a-good-society npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA What would be an "authentically Conservative position"? Libertarian optimist, mere conservative or communitarian nationalist? Who is the authentic Conservative? Towards a Conservatism that can work. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/what-would-be-an-authentically-conservative npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🤝 During my time as an MP, I was pleased to work with thousands of my constituents on a wide range of policy issues. 📥 MPs receive an exceptional level of correspondence. In my series on the workings of Parliament, Liam Shearer outlines how to get your MP's attention. ➡ https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/how-not-to-get-ignored-by-your-mp npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Now that Labour MPs can see plainly that their Prime Minister is willing to pick them off a few at a time to coerce the rest into obedience, they have to answer a simple question: will they tolerate it or not? Starmer's absolutism Why it matters and what Labour MPs can do about it https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/starmers-absolutism npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Climate policy is now so important, everyone seeking to wield or influence power ought to know the terms of debate. Radical candour for Ed Miliband The climate is changing and we should take that seriously. But climate policy is leading us to ruin, often on unscientific foundations: the now implausible high emissions scenario RCP8.5. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/radical-candour-for-ed-miliband npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📣I said I oppose wealth taxes. 😡People replied: ‘You’re corrupt. Self-interested. Bought.’” 🤦🏻♂️That’s the fundamental attribution error - it’s why people think they are on the moral high ground as they attack viciously. 🔗https://www.theprovocationpeople.com/2025/01/fundamental-attribution-error/ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA A moment of anguish, a crisis of authority The Chancellor's heart-rending distress in the Commons may have strengthened her position but it seems likely Keir Starmer will need another Chancellor as his strategy collapses. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-anguish-a-crisis-of-authority https://video.nostr.build/00cbaf19ceed672c8a8dc2693a2943055a8dde1dab297d6ad49c026fd28982ce.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA A day of wrath for the Labour Whips Finally, a rebellion they can’t contain through political brute force. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/a-day-of-wrath-for-the-labour-whips npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 💡It’s simple to own, save, send and spend physical gold digitally, everywhere Mastercard is accepted, with Glint. 📣Download the app: https://glintpay.com/#download npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA New free post: Sound money for the 21st Century I am a sound money maximalist: look to gold and Bitcoin. Gold has been made simple. Here's how to navigate cryptocurrency, that is, emerging synthetic commodity money: it's Bitcoin. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/sound-money-for-the-21st-century npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📻 I’ll be on Times Radio just after 9 to discuss Iran, free speech and other big issues of the day (🥵) 🎧https://www.thetimes.com/radio npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Growth through credit expansion – a recipe for disaster Politicians and business leaders love cheap credit: low interest rates create a temporary boom. But when driven by credit creation not real saving, the outcome is necessarily a bust. https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/growth-through-credit-expansion-a npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 💡Here’s one to revise and update and translate to TikTok, https://mises.org/library/book/anti-capitalistic-mentality https://image.nostr.build/e891630d70fb97ef3ec4831856da94d5d83d45b4b9644515beded8980a70762c.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📣Finally, the PM announces an inquiry into grooming gangs. https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/immigration-integration-and-social?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios https://image.nostr.build/c83925deb191db590c8e3aa3b326fb5464e9fdadd0680cc22e8c6c5fa9ac8f4c.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA On immigration, integration and social cohesion https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/immigration-integration-and-social?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Why we are Fighting for a Free Future On elite failure, groupthink and the need for a paradigm shift in political and intellectual life https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/why-we-are-fighting-for-a-free-future npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Brexit is no longer done. Alas. Starmer's EU "reset" is worse than I thought. Unwinding it will be no-deal Brexit drama all over again. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/brexit-is-no-longer-done-alas npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Starmer’s EU reset: liberty bound by the EU Leaving the EU meant exiting its political and legal jurisdiction – of course. Starmer now looks set to bind us as a partial rule taker. Northern Ireland's Unionists must beware of supporting him. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/starmers-eu-reset-liberty-bound-by npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🙋♀️I was asked last night at an event why I raise climate scenarios. 😡It’s because they are wrong and dramatically mislead policy makers… 💡Via Roger Pielke Jr https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielkejr/p/how-climate-change-became-apocalyptic?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📣What a great day to be refreshing my memory of public choice theory via the primer from the IEA - see the final paragraph 🗽Essential reading https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/public-choice-a-primer https://image.nostr.build/4bb7548f3ac48229385c56dd3ac11f8d71fd75cb220cf2a60d37dd75e395ee46.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA I quite like having statistics though. npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Reform are today enjoying a massive win as voters lose faith in both main parties. This could be seen coming in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: money needs reform. https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/money-needs-reform?r=2lrt4a&utm_medium=ios npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Happy Easter! https://image.nostr.build/08a80a1ce1993c03d2f4a27684c023c573a50b8d825967513d8de6ae81eb6fa3.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA ❤️Book Club loved Bastiat 💡You can too: 📖https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Bastiat%20Collection_4.pdf npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🤷🏻♂️Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. 🗽Yes, that’s right: Book Club tomorrow, reading Bastiat. https://mises.org/library/book/bastiat-collection https://image.nostr.build/cef9597531edb88204b166db29a985d8d111545afe2be02526b85d1344134363.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😡I was a pariah when I launched the #CostOfNetZero campaign 🤔Today The Times says energy costs have “crippled energy-intensive manufacturers” 📣I’m going to keep saying it: #IToldYouSo https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/its-the-end-of-coal-that-shattered-the-steel-industry-qlhvrbssh npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Today. https://image.nostr.build/e2fcd30eabe1bb4f1c067f51c54b8e0d8871b21d263b50832d82d9097ceec45c.jpg https://video.nostr.build/36ecfa6529a02ce5a11ddccc802dcc19494b6c831360642889af20e0699236fa.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/bd5e6137688fcdce9691ee90158caf5722e99ebcf3b28cb952128bbd38860432.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🏪A superb ePOS terminal from Musqet at CheatCode, with seamless Bitcoin integration alongside other payment methods. Outstanding 🏆 https://musqet.tech/in-store-payments/ https://image.nostr.build/6338ac7b113171e9a5f330fc917e88ebbf70b817293814bbf2543cc74efc6869.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2a37e8edcbf81b1b620e47154c1b5fc90ab88f744ce78a4f572c490ac81df567.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Barriers to US exports made Trump's tariff policy inevitable when he was re-elected and, by any reading of his former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, this policy was easy to foresee. Now we are stuck with it, we have to hope those who govern us will react appropriately. If so, Trump may have rescued free trade. – Tariffs are terrible – but Trump may save free trade In politics, asking nicely for sound policy based on high principle does not work. Alas. Trump's policy is massively disruptive and potentially hugely damaging: how could good come of it? https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/tariffs-are-terrible-but-trump-may npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😡People can be extremely hostile when they disagree. 💡That’s why I’m so excited about Professor Paul Dolan’s new book “Beliefism: How to stop hating the people we disagree with” https://amzn.eu/d/gBlySf4 https://video.nostr.build/8cf3781b6e1230ca9ce1c531f72ba9552bae9b4b20beeee6ac5f76037bb059fa.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Extract from a forthcoming paper: — A life well-lived For those of us who believe life has purpose higher than mere existence, it seems indisputable that liberty is not some optional accessory; it is the cornerstone on which rests our safety and security, our identity and morality, our relationships, our prosperity and our fulfilment. Whether elaborating natural rights, rebelling against tyranny or making a utilitarian case for prosperity, the classical liberal and conservative tradition holds that each individual must be free to think, speak, act and innovate - provided they do not infringe upon the same freedom of others. This balance of universal and reciprocal rights and responsibilities under a stable rule of law fosters societies in which virtue can thrive, economic opportunity can flourish and individuals can pursue happiness in ways that are meaningful to them. In such an environment, we find not the chaos of unbridled license, but the promise of cooperation and the dignity of moral choice - proving once again that liberty is both a moral necessity and a practical framework for enduring human progress. https://image.nostr.build/325552101f9689919703c91a52c8d3c45f700e24ba407db94ad71c6d48811e52.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Talk of a "uniparty" aggravated me. Then I recalled I used to say, "Vote Labservative for same"… What does history and public choice tell us about parties, their intentions and their actions in power? https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/the-uniparty-benefits-public-choice npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 💡Delight or shock, horrify or amuse your friends and family, with a custom Cameo video by yours truly. cameo.com/SteveBakerFRSA npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 💡Book me to speak through Specialist Speakers: https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?s=Steve+baker npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer This is Reeves’s fundamental problem: our system of social democracy is coming apart as it becomes increasingly unaffordable. The situation is grave. The post-war settlement is breaking down on all fronts—at home and abroad. It is a great unravelling. To placate the furious Labour left, Reeves will likely resort to yet more damaging tax rises while cutting welfare and increasing defence spending. The centre-right must respond with clarity and discipline. Any other strategy is a mistake: • Welcome every spending cut. • Oppose every tax rise. New article: Right turn ahead for Reeves and Starmer Against all their instincts, Labour are about to turn further right. Centre-right politicians and think tanks must drive them forward in a situation which is more serious than commonly understood. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/right-turn-ahead-for-reeves-and-starmer npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA I love high-minded idealism as much as anyone, but don’t expect it from the USA for a few years. No amount of fulminating about how President Trump treats President Zelenskyy appallingly by whichever historical comparison will make him behave any differently. The scene is set for Trump to get all he wants, partly by giving Putin what he wants: a broad slice of Ukraine. In all its brute ugliness, we just witnessed the USA wield its mighty power to great effect to meet its own ends, ends which Europe was hoping against hope would not materialise. Expect within weeks for everyone to claim victory as Europe commits to guarantee the peace for a smaller Ukraine, a Ukraine mining minerals for America as America moves on. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/trump-vs-zelenskyy npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Sometimes it seems we live in a world where every virtue is twisted and perverted into vice. Love for country is one such virtue, for it is one element which provides for a healthy identity and a basis for those moral sentiments which bind us together as a voluntary community against adversity, both everyday and existential. https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/love-of-country-for-good-and-ill https://image.nostr.build/7d2147a710ae8baba5b50ca9541d86b203676c118f1e212df2ee63f008e5d0ff.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🇺🇦 With talk of UK “boots on the ground” in Ukraine to keep any peace, remember the fiasco of Iraq was supposed to have taught everyone what questions to ask. 💡Now would be the time to apply those lessons. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81f19440f0b62305b91a48/TheGoodOperation_WEB.PDF https://image.nostr.build/6737cdcd6fe41a59cf07201f9cb9c05c197389234d245dac9d740b17a696ea53.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🙋🏻♂️“The methods of money production in society today are profoundly corrupting in ways that would matter to everyone if they were clearly understood.” 📣As gold flows out of the Bank of England and CoinDesk reports on the US National Bitcoin Reserve, here’s my 2014 speech on money 📺Bitcoin, gold and the Bank of England 🗽The most important subject we face is discussed too little: how money is created and how the process corrupts society. My speech on "Money Creation and Society". https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/bitcoin-gold-and-the-bank-of-england https://image.nostr.build/6e986d3abb1e63338c6014e28d6bc9498ad067c2396a955660583feafcb27a0a.jpg https://video.nostr.build/c2ea0ea4be2758f36c9b99ee0821894ff5a6fefd87352f68502a02f65721552d.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Excellent npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Too soon Nigel. Too soon. Nigel Farage is now treading a fearful path to grand failure of his own making; today’s “sources close” story tells me he knows it. The future of our nation already rests on the shoulders of Nigel Farage: he will decide the next government. He has trapped himself by his success and seems to know it. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/too-soon-nigel-too-soon https://image.nostr.build/e07b1736a79625f2ebee4ba5342ae2e64d6ba53a1ee574ce3f7caa86d1c18992.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA ❓With the post-war social democratic system in collapse as it runs out of young workers to meet pension, health and care obligations, would returning to the EU solve our growth problem? 🤦🏻♂️Not a chance. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/return-to-growth https://image.nostr.build/f75d5da0cecd5ea87d4bac7fc4ef0ee8f2da8ad1f6c2ae910151bd230b8eb319.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA New article: Compromise As we left the EU, eventually I did and my word did it hurt. But it was the right decision The price tarnishes the prize. But you get to keep the prize and that is why it must be done. We all prefer total and final victory. It is rare. Leaders compromise. And that is tough. https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/compromise-a-dirty-word https://image.nostr.build/eaaeea28453e3d0972c443434f3b47f03ce04e3e8b1a9dbf16fa3137a28fb8fa.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA ❓Is someone’s birthday coming up? 😂I’ll be glad to help. 🔗https://v.cameo.com/e/w2IoiE7qvQb https://image.nostr.build/b36660f4fa43597f9e56e973b28ceeb4ea68916f6c6d752b3755e1ffec09f2a0.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🏃The world is changing and the pace of change is only accelerating 💡Book me via Specialist Speakers for unrivalled insight into the forces which shape our world: https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=16419 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 👀Yes, that’s right: Journalists - five scenarios 📣You are making the news. Here’s how to survive and win. 5️⃣These are the five key situations with journalists you will face as an MP: 🧻the press release 🧐the proactive individual briefing 😱the unsolicited inquiry 🏉the scrum 🥴lunch https://open.substack.com/pub/fightingforafreefuture/p/journalists-five-scenarios npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🔥”Much more usual in politics is scandal or danger to the community. 😡“Politicians are always alleging one thing or another or seeking to juxtapose the burning platform with the sunlit uplands. 🌱“That is the fertile territory on which the politician usually operates.” 🔟Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan: ten rules for working with the Press http://bit.ly/10RulesJournalists https://image.nostr.build/b08f53f4680d5626ad9c736341e09e505ead7a06bf25b4450aa8c1250da8c4f9.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA I spent 14 years in politics experiencing the “fundamental attribution error”, yet Paul Dolan explained it in the first 30 minutes of his new book, out in May. That’s why together, The Provocation People can help your business make a step change in fostering cognitive diversity without the downsides. Please contact us for an initial conversation. https://www.theprovocationpeople.com/2025/01/fundamental-attribution-error/ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA ✍🏻Journalists 🤷🏻♂️Can't live with them. Can't deport them to South Sudan. Ten rules for working with the Press 🐺They will get you if they can. It is in their nature. https://bit.ly/40AWJgb https://image.nostr.build/f1fee439d9f85a13b2fc9d7ec055d9327573e56472672429dc7d7782d32d578e.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Fundamental Attribution Error How I learned more about the causes of hostility from Prof Paul Dolan in 30 minutes than in 14 years of Parliament https://www.theprovocationpeople.com/2025/01/fundamental-attribution-error/ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA You’d have to ask them. npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🪫Via Energy Dashboard, this morning’s generation mix: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live 🔥We need gas. Plenty of it. 💡And a strategic policy of gas to nuclear: https://conservativehome.com/2022/02/23/steve-baker-wanted-a-politically-and-economically-viable-path-to-low-emissions/ https://image.nostr.build/187085fbb9a6d7e45a8761fc478743d83e478fb3ddc2f64b693bb063be4eba5c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1577fe951dc4403d983c8c8f6a5e2d6724138394075e4b91a42277c7aa1e9235.jpg https://image.nostr.build/255692fa07f5a9fa29882fc59a9170c5f4b6f01d0bdcf2ca18dcc0ef465739f7.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🎙️“Funnily enough, I’m not the famous one!” 🤷🏻♂️ Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the curse of easy answers - me for The Rundown with PoliticsHome, wherever you get your podcasts https://video.nostr.build/130ee01f049e7833db5a7ff7b2d3bcc65874753ef4a30bbd6edbb4f212d582ea.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🗽The business cards are in: one for me and one for the Director of Fighting for a Free Future, Harry Richer 🔗Discover more and donate: https://www.stevebaker.info/projects/fighting-for-a-free-future/ https://image.nostr.build/9e0782ca795967207ddd201a3e30e37214e4100309a0c14c30e927226249755c.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Zero tolerance: the politics of child sexual exploitation by gangs Politicians, officials and the police must show an absolute commitment to the rule of law, including equal application, plus the courage staunchly to defend victims and the innocent. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/zero-tolerance-the-politics-of-child npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🧐Want to hear about politics and public policy, past, present and future, with unrivalled insights into how parliament really works, tailored to your field? 💡Book me via Specialist Speakers https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=16419 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Whipping Yarns: A rebel whip's tale - A conversation with former MP Steve Baker https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliament-matters-podcast-e65 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA ⛓️💥“We need to break out of this idea that there's one size fits all, that there's a consensus around things. We need to be listening to different perspectives to really make better and effective decisions.” 🗣️Paul interviews Steve on his podcast Breaking Beliefism 🔗https://shows.acast.com/66fec64f63073ba71b9d5f4f/677699b3a1ad7348eb399f2e https://video.nostr.build/62d64e71b88dcb1a1a73416d09f1bf7609e2d323a7aa1161cfa93110a2149d06.mp4 https://video.nostr.build/62d64e71b88dcb1a1a73416d09f1bf7609e2d323a7aa1161cfa93110a2149d06.mp4 https://video.nostr.build/62d64e71b88dcb1a1a73416d09f1bf7609e2d323a7aa1161cfa93110a2149d06.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Ok. All lost on me. I don’t listen to podcasts usually. https://www.fountain.fm/episode/G4C9o0YlxkOJEn54I4AW npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😂”Be really, really, really clear that your resolution is something that is going to make you happier.” 💡 Paul Dolan explains how to be happier by design through your New Year resolutions as we discuss his Breaking Beliefism podcast with me: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/breaking-beliefism/id1777795490?i=1000682489522 https://video.nostr.build/8066fb25934fefc2b74607f437ba61f4db42faf0fdbaffa3786bb617f2e14f5e.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😊I’m incredibly proud of the range and quality of this conversation with Paul Dolan about how organisations and individuals can benefit from collaborating with those they disagree with. 😄Enjoy! https://video.nostr.build/14d2a019026d09e7f90bdccc7126a5a0aa36d4dac7ef8a838998e980c3d98567.mp4 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Happy new year and Godspeed for 2025! https://image.nostr.build/45fe025434366525c85ef66448fb2607288ed9feb8a652c22d077b946f391d04.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Merry Christmas! https://image.nostr.build/383a22eb93b4de4abe694d4bf1f629b0e7ffc857a59dca393b5b4b47734973a0.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA That was supposed to have these images. 🙄 https://image.nostr.build/e6edfb442819216246a47600b19bcbfb176e8f8d57caf412546ca555d390f435.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b34853658bfe1c7e201c82bba961a567356cf31853cd658a89098f8d5fe8776d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/383a22eb93b4de4abe694d4bf1f629b0e7ffc857a59dca393b5b4b47734973a0.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Evolution of an idea. npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Free trade nation Today, it is possible for an interventionist world to enjoy free trade without anti-democratic political integration. It is a transformational success of global significance won at unnecessarily great cost. I am proud to have played my part in it. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/free-trade-nation npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA ❌ DON’T CANVASS ME! 🗳️I’m voting for West #Wycombe’s local Conservative champion Dominic Barnes 😊 https://image.nostr.build/9c02867100111e877cb7a4576fdddf65c7db792af21c23b762c3ccec365d17d9.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🥊War minus the shooting 👨🏻🏫A practical strategy for libertarian politics, derived from a talk for Students for Liberty 🗽https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/war-minus-the-shooting https://image.nostr.build/dbab04d47482d30a93149e87a56e963967d4d3d7f795054b71840f8d8a14b02c.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA https://x.com/stevebakerfrsa/status/1866899323255947295?s=46&t=d-LvP9Y9cQcb1wjwMCYNqA npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🗽Many thanks to Students for Liberty for the opportunity to speak with you about practical libertarian political strategy: purpose, methods and intellectual equipment ✊Please keep up the good fight - I’m counting on you 🫡 https://image.nostr.build/617c9f583a7a7bebd4f44db12e852190e1291048b680066bdaab071a911a91e9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4c6e2f46401661ea589542be41ccbafc3339c288c3572be41898fa62796898cf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db20c73725492523cd19f7becd3cfda2700e935ca5b423c506921a3f382c1f38.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 💦🇲🇼Pump Aid is bringing safe water to over 230,000 people in Malawi's rural Central Region 💷Your donation can help reach their Big Give target of £50,000 and extend their impact even further 🙏Please join me in contributing today using the link below. https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002TPUbYAAX npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 📺 Enjoyed my (for the moment) regular Monday morning on GB News ❓How did we do? https://image.nostr.build/f7e358923fde182f95076196a7f64a60575941167d84f197eb8620e0dd8d3afe.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bbf9d36cbb5fa2e80ec77ecfe38e446fb578a65ac758c09e4a4a5a89f474a8eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1cdf9800c803cb9a18db9615f0936a1259ea72767236c24e567540b1375cea51.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6483bf18e63e13567880458a2afa6f5a2a5e096cf019dfee3f0cedb9745bfb2e.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA *We can get off the road to serfdom* Entrepreneurs will lead the way to freedom as the pace of social progress accelerates through current and new technologies which create opportunities for a free society undreamt of by our forebears. https://fightingforafreefuture.substack.com/p/we-can-get-off-the-road-to-serfdom https://image.nostr.build/0de5ecf3a5e7d1e264d0e320ef9fa010baf48128536ec8a9d628f08785da69fb.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Not as far as I know npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😊Could social media be made happier by design? Can companies break out of groupthink while avoiding conflict? 💡Professor Paul Dolan and I think so. 🎙️We discuss X-odus: people leaving X for other platforms. Could Elon Musk do something about it? We think so. 📺Full discussion: https://youtu.be/kgB4bWocKnc?si=rZkE6MjXCR4P3mXs npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 😇In every generation, kind souls are seduced by socialism’s utopian promise of heaven on earth. 🩸In his excellent new book, @GilesUdy restates the truth: socialism means poverty and oppression, misery and mass murder. 📖At Dawn They Came: https://amzn.eu/d/e9oZBH9 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Thanks - glad to be involved. 14 years in parliament diverted me. npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Many thanks to everyone who has zapped me! An unexpected joy! 🍻 npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🤝I am delighted to join Axiom as an advisor. 💡Find my paper for Axiom here: https://www.axiombtc.capital/honest 🗣️”The importance of a social safety net which works is obvious. The consequences of one which is chronically unaffordable should now be heaving into view. The importance of sound money to a just and equitable market economy deserves further elaboration.” npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🗣️”The incoming Trump administration has announced its intention to back a “strategic Bitcoin reserve”. That catapults what was once a fantastical thought experiment, one to be stumbled upon in obscure online message boards, to a major issue in global geopolitics and the financial system. ❓“Financial institutions and governments now must answer whether Bitcoin is part of a speculative bubble inflated by easy money or part of the answer to it.” 🗽I firmly believe #BTC is part of the solution and I’m proud to join Axiom today as an advisor. 🔗https://www.cityam.com/trumps-election-means-its-time-to-take-bitcoin-seriously/ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🎄The GB News Christmas trees are standing by. I’ll be on with Andrew and Ellie from 10:20 📺 https://image.nostr.build/ee714e9a38b9c0e54d60919f4e06603a7c7d0c0a4cc9e32938192d3cefd6f7eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6ea694a444ddc6bab3f841279ff072ae1d3bfbac99f937b4ff0af3427ebdfc1e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7cd70ee5db07fbd0496c7eca78af243701e877d819f8984a352e793387b19738.jpg npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA https://www.cityam.com/trumps-election-means-its-time-to-take-bitcoin-seriously/ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA 🤷🏻♂️ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Please see my Substack. I’m not on a mission to persuade you or anyone else. I’ve made my case. People can take it or leave it. npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA I am what I am, yes. But if you form unrealistic expectations of what an individual can achieve, you will always be disappointed. Psalm 146:3 refers npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA People who want government reflecting the principles of a free society need to join and stay in the Conservative Party. That isn’t very popular. An old saying is, “In democracies, electorates get the government they deserve.” 🤷🏻♂️ I’ll be doing what I can in public life and private business but the state has power over us all and there’s only one way to steer and diminish it. Again, I won’t lie to you. Http://Insight.stevebaker.info npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA Again, it’s just not how politics works. You can’t force MPs out 1-by-1. Labour have massive power at least until the PM decides to have an election in about 2029. I won’t lie to you. It’s among the reasons I am less popular than some. I lift the lid on politics on my Substack. People can believe what I write from first hand experience or not. I can’t force you. 🤷🏻♂️ npub13k8vp6ylmagffppknaepalcpl0g07rrkwxgdq8c732lnad4gmekq4huf2d SteveBakerFRSA If you think I’m new to sound money, you haven’t been following my work. EG, 2010 maiden speech: https://www.cobdencentre.org/2010/06/an-honest-money-maiden-speech/ And I led the first parliamentary debate on the monetary system since the 1844 Bank Charter Act: https://www.cobdencentre.org/2014/11/money-creation-and-society-debate-in-full/ There’s plenty more. I’ve nothing to prove on this front. A long record speaks for itself.