{"id":83762,"date":"2025-07-06T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83762"},"modified":"2025-07-06T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:13:10","slug":"choosing-ones-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/06\/choosing-ones-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing one\u2019s battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email this morning saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I'm surprised that you're frightened to take on the law over the ridiculous terrorism act particularly since you write (sic) books like The Courageous State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">I fight big battles, not small ones.\u00a0Knowing the difference is key.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And that really is it. There are campaigners who might think this is, metaphorically, the hill they wish to die on. I don\u2019t. I am interested in taking on neoliberalism and the whole path to fascism that it creates. This issue is a bit of a skirmish on the sidelines when I want to be at the front where the real challenge is. That explains my choice. Please respect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email this morning saying: I&#8217;m surprised that you&#8217;re frightened to take on the law over the ridiculous terrorism act particularly since you<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/06\/choosing-ones-battles\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,25,16,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-blogging","category-ethics","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83763,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83762\/revisions\/83763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}