Samuel Brittan is a columnist at the Financial Times. His most recent books are Capitalism with A Human Face (Edward Elgar—1995, Fontana—1996) and Essays, Moral, Political and Economic (Edinburgh University Press, 1998). He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; a Hon. Doctor of Letters (Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh); and a Hon. Doctor of the University of Essex. He has been Visiting Professor at the Chicago Law School, a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and an Honorary Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. He has been awarded the George Orwell, Senior Harold Wincott, and Ludwig Erhard prizes. He was a member of the Peacock Committee on the Finance of the BBC (1985–86). He was knighted in 1993 for “services to economic journalism” and also became that year a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.