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Libertarian Left or Right?

November 4, 2011
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Libertarianism, if it be the promotion of individual liberty and individual responsibility, is neither left nor right. In the British context it is neither Conservative nor Labour. It is not, essentially, about a political form at all but rather the removal of ‘politics’, of controlling power and coercion, in the life of the individual. (If [...]

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Snip! Snip!

October 24, 2011
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Ah, those terrible cuts! We have protests, we have rage, we have the incomprehensible irony of people occupying public spaces against global capitalism, while yakking on their spanking new iPhone 4S’s and sipping a Starbucks decaf skinny vanilla cappucino. And we have people complaining bitterly that their sense of egregious entitlement is being attacked by [...]

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Exclusive – Welsh Wails.

October 19, 2011
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There is a folk lore image of the down-trodden miner, coal grimed face, singing ‘Men of Harlech’ as he is forced down thousands of feet underground with hundreds of his fellow men for the exclusive benefit of a fat uncaring controller – the unacceptable face of capitalism writ large. It is much promoted by those [...]

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Imagine

October 12, 2011
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Close your eyes and imagine this scenario: although no-one is particularly complaining about some vague and menacing-sounding situation involving children, the government has decided that it has to be seen to be doing something. And given a broad range of possible options including making parents aware of things that maybe they hadn’t considered through to [...]

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Turkeys voting for Christmas

September 18, 2011
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In Leeds councillors have recently rejected a vote to stop paying union “Pilgrims” over £400,000 a year. Interestingly just about all the councillors who voted to reject the motion were Labour and all were union members. None of the Conservatives or Independents voted to reject it. The resolution was proposed by Cllr Alan Lamb (Con). [...]

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Ed Balls in Fantasia

June 17, 2011

Thanks to Fraser Nelson for pointing out a world-class piece of carpet-bagging by Ed Balls MP, the Shadow Chancellor. In his “Speech for the Alternative” the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Economic Wizard showed how he was resolute when he was running the economy in the late 1990s: I would say that: – setting out tough fiscal rules [...]

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From Flight to Reality.

November 30, 2010

It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression. His latest alleged ‘gaffe’ was to say that: “We’re going to have a system where the middle [...]

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