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The debate about access to free goods and services is raging. Rupert Murdoch has said he will start charging for on-line access to the Times. I think that’s fair enough.  Someone has to write and research the stuff.  We have to pay for good journalism (I’m unsure where that leaves the Sun?). It’s the other things that we now pay for that we never used to that get me; university, dentistry, parking, school books etc.  Politicians want to bring in co-payments for health so that those who can top-up for better service do.

What underpins all this is the notion that only by paying and choosing is anything of any value. Choice has become the key value of our society.  But it always means some can make better choices than others because they have more money.  That might be ok on the high street but there are places where we should be equal citizens and not just competing consumers. We should demand the choice about when not to choose.

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