What is our most important, fundamental right? To the author the answer is quite clear - it is freedom. And is our freedom best guaranteed by a socialist, communist, or capitalist system? Again, we are left in no doubt. The author is a firm advocate of capitalism, examining and dismissing the first two systems in turn.

To help convince us he applies his basic theories on a national, European and global scale. He first tackles some key domestic issues under the current Labour government and then looks at the EUs propensity to become a superstate with a single army and...