by admin@dominic frisby | Jan 6, 2014 | LifeAfterTheState, News
The Silk Road was an undercover website where you could buy or sell illegal goods — drugs mainly. I understand passports were changing hands for about $6,000 and weapons too were sold until the spate of shootings in the US over the summer caused the owner to...
by admin@dominic frisby | Dec 27, 2013 | LifeAfterTheState, News
The highest form of charity, argued the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides, is when the help given enables the receiver to become self- sufficient. But our systems of state charity – aka welfare – have too frequently had the opposite effect: they...
by admin@dominic frisby | Dec 20, 2013 | Comedy
… or this could happen: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnRYyb-QBy0[/youtube] Have a happy Christmas everyone. Hiccup.
by admin@dominic frisby | Dec 3, 2013 | LifeAfterTheState, News
My father is forever saying to me that we have the state to thank for pulling so many people in the 19th century out of illiteracy and into learning. Without the state, he says, there would be an underclass of illiterates. This is a compelling and widely believed...
by admin@dominic frisby | Dec 2, 2013 | News, Voiceovers
I see Ryan Giggs turned 40 this weekend. This was one of the first voiceovers I ever recorded – back in, I think, 1993. It’s amazing that the ad could still be played today, some 20 years later, and, assuming he hasn’t changed sponsor, work just as...
