For example, he attacks free-market economics because it points out that overpricing labour causes unemployment. Rather than debate this fact, he sneers at it as being fundamentalist free-market dogma. He simply cannot grasp that free markets and free societies go hand in hand. Barker is not only an appalling economic illiterate, even for a 'journalist', he is also a hypocrite. Sooner or later, true statists always reveal their authoritarian nature and their contempt for the masses.
Barker is no exception.