The funeral of Norman Stone took place on Friday 28 June in the Deak Lutheran Church in Budapest. His son Rupert asked me to be a pall bearer and I followed the coffin up the aisle behind the prime minister Viktor Orban. Historians Niall Ferguson and Harold James, among others, eulogised him. My presence was … Continue reading Norman’s Last Day

Writing at the turn of the century, the English jurist A.V. Dicey predicted that the age of individualism would give way to an 'age of collectivism'. Collectivism, he wrote, meant 'government for the good of the people by experts and officials who think they know what is good for the people...better than the mass of … Continue reading Beyond Statism