Join the Staff, Supporters and Students of the Young Britons’ Foundation at THE best party this summer! After last year’s superb event at Peter Stringfellow’s new club, Angels, this year YBF is delighted to announce that the YBF Summer Drinks Reception will be taking place at Mahiki – THE place to be seen.
YBF Summer Drinks Reception
Date: Thursday, 22 July 2010, 8.00pm
Venue: Mahiki, 1 Dover Street, London W1S 4LD
FREE Mahiki Cocktails – but get there early!
Entry: £20 (£10 for full-time students and graduates)
To purchase your ticket, email emma@ybf.org.uk and then pay online or send payment to YBF, 50 Churchill Square, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4YU.
Space is limited so apply early. ROAR
AND THAT’S NOT ALL!
Come armed with questions and prepare to give your CF National Chairman candidates a grilling as YBF will also be hosting a Hustings which will run from 7.00pm – entry from 6.45pm. A ticket for the Summer Party MUST be purchased in order to gain access to the Hustings.
As Christmas fast approaches you might be stuggling to think of that last minute Christmas present for a friend of relative. YBF is here to help with three DVD recommendations for you!
Beginning on the night she met her husband-to-be Denis, the film tells of the young Margaret Thatcher’s steely determination to get selected to a ‘winnable’ Tory seat in the Fifties and imagines what might have gone on behind the scenes during her ten-year struggle as she was rejected by a succession of five home counties Tory selection committees and finally – against considerable local opposition – selected for the seat she was to be identified with for the rest of her political career – Finchley!
Meet the bewildered Rt Hon James Hacker, his scheming and equivocating Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby and of course, Bernard, the piggy-in-the middle, on their fraught journey through the corridors of power. Easily the sharpest political comedy every written, with clandestine help from real civil servants, and satire that bites so close to home it sometimes seems more like a documentary. This does the impossible: it makes politics not just fun but hilariously funny.
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan’s (The Queen, Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the untold story of the historic encounter that changed both: Frost/Nixon. Reprising their roles from Morgan’s stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who originally played the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.
Back in 2005 a production company was given the task of producing three party political broadcasts for Channel Four News to show. These political broadcasts were not endorsed by any of the parties however they do make very interesting watching. Even though the video below was produced in 2005 it seems there are some points that remain very current.
A few of YBF’s staff will be at the event so please feel free to come up to us and introduce yourself at the event. We look forward to seeing you all there!
The Foundation For Economic Education (FEE) is one of the oldest free-market non-political, non-profit, tax-exempt educational foundations in America. Founded in 1946 By Leonard E. Read, FEE was one of the champions of the free market when the philosophies of socialism and communism were gaining force mid-century.
Based in New York, FEE is twenty miles north of Manhattan. Beautifully situated on 7 acre 19th-century estate, the headquarters of FEE serve as a valuable educational center with offices, library and archives, classroom, a commercial kitchen, a formal dining room, a large reception lounge, and dormitory housing. It is here that FEE publishes and hosts lectures by some of the finest minds of the modern age, which have included Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Vernon Smith, Walter Williams, George Stigler, John Chamberlain, and William F. Buckley Jr., among many others.
The Foundation is dedicated to the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and individual responsibility and choice. The Foundation champions these principles, noting that despite the defeat of communism many Americans do not value the principles America was founded on and turns too often to the government for interference or coercion. Believing very rightly that freedom is essential to human existence, and that it is “dangerous to move toward any form of collectivism,” FEE is dedicated to educating students on liberty.
To do this The Foundation publishes in-depth periodicals, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Notes from FEE, and In Brief all of which are focused on furthering human liberty. The publications deliver tothousands in America and around the world valuable insights into the foundations of free enterprise and a constitutionally limited government and present a case against collectivism.
The Foundation also hosts an annual Summer Seminars which are open to students over the age of 18 as well as adults, parents, teachers, and anyone else who is interested. Each different seminar has a different focus, and have included “Austrian Economics,” “Freedom 101,” “History and Liberty,” and the “Young Scholars Colloquium.”
As you watch this video think of all the similarities that we are being created in Britain since the the Labour government came to power in 1997.
As activist’s you need to support campaigns such as Big Brother and Watch NO2ID because without campaigns such as these highlighting the infringement upon our civil liberties the government could get away with much more than it already does.
As the Christmas period grows ever closer YBF has a few recommendations for books you could buy your family or friends, maybe even ask for yourself as a present from Santa!
Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep is a witty compilation of absurd examples of political correctness. It takes a look behind some of the headlines you will remember tracing the stories in some detail.
Last year YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, spotted a great website called RateMyProfessors.com. The site is primarily an American site so that students can rate their professors whilst at college.
However…
If you go to the left hand side of the front page of the website and click on the drop down bar under where it says ‘Find a professor’ you can select England. If you search through the different counties and universities there are plenty of lecturers based in England that you may know and therefore can rate!
The categories you can rate include the following:
Easiness
Helpfulness
Clarity
Interest level prior to attending class
Textbook use
Textbook used (if you know it)
Grade
Attendance
Prof Status (whether they are still teaching or not)
Appearance (just for fun)
Class
and Comments
By finally clicking on ‘Rate This Professor’ your rating will be submitted!
One of the strongest forums of freespeech and conservative thought comes from the blogosphere. With opinions and views spread across the spectrum of political thought, often blogs are the best place to look for true grassroots feelings about a situation or event in politics.
If you have recently set up a blog or have been writing a blog that you think we here at YBF don’t know about and our readers may also be interested in then please let us know. Email YBF’s Director of Operations at steven@ybf.org.uk and YBF will post a list of new blogs or ones you may not have heard of each week so you can find the ones of interest to you.
This is the new cinema advert from the TaxPayers’ Alliance – the first cinema advert from a UK political campaign in almost a decade. As well as highlighting the huge cost of the EU to ordinary taxpayers and consumers, it promotes the new TPA book “Ten Years On”, which you can order FREE at www.greatEUdebate.com
Join the Staff, Supporters and Students of the Young Britons’ Foundation at THE best party this summer! After last year’s superb event at Peter Stringfellow’s new club, Angels, this year YBF is delighted to announce that the YBF Summer Drinks Reception will be taking place at Mahiki – THE place to be seen.
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archives, classroom, a commercial kitchen, a formal dining room, a large reception lounge, and dormitory housing. It is here that FEE publishes and hosts lectures by some of the finest minds of the modern age, which have included Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Vernon Smith, Walter Williams, George Stigler, John Chamberlain, and William F. Buckley Jr., among many others.
individual responsibility and choice. The Foundation champions these principles, noting that despite the defeat of communism many Americans do not value the principles America was founded on and turns too often to the government for interference or coercion. Believing very rightly that freedom is essential to human existence, and that it is “dangerous to move toward any form of collectivism,” FEE is dedicated to educating students on liberty.
Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain.
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