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'Right up there with the Communist Manifesto'

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According to Dominic Lawson, I'm not only the "most unruly and subversive" member of the Commons, but my book is a "revolutionary text ... right up there with the Communist Manifesto".

Unlike the Communist Manifesto – or indeed any other manifesto – my book argues not for some grand design in human social and economic affairs. We've had far too many of those.

Instead, I suggest that technology means we're entering an age when human affairs will not be arranged by grand design at all.  No more need for the grand designers, either.

Bad news for politicians and other parasites. Great news for everyone else.

Still wedded to the idea that we need government-by-grand-design? Think West Coast Rail fiasco .... 

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