The costs of war

They’re wars that began through nationalist competition and were won through international co-operation.

Progress in science and technology over 200 years has been based on the values of co-operation, choice and diversity.

Above a level of adequacy, progress has been about better goods and services, and not about more and more goods in a limited world and environment.

A good health and welfare service has got nothing to do with commercial secrecy, and cut throat competition between providers or between drug companies.

Henry Ford would have been very happy if he could have sold the whole world the same make of car, and all coloured black.

R. W. Standing

Sea Road

East Preston

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