Libertarianism

The Lurch to Libertarianism.

December 7, 2011
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The National Centre for Social Research today released the latest British Social Attitudes report, its annual study of how people’s lives are changing and their views on how Britain is run. One of the main findings was that: ‘Despite widespread concern about economic disparity, the public do not appear to believe that government redistribution is [...]

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Fire!

July 30, 2011
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Thanks to EnglandsFreedome one of my many questions about life the universe and everything has been answered. That was the classic argument about freedom of speech and how far you go in allowing it in when someone shouts “fire” in a cinema. The point Murray Rothbard in puts across in his book “For a New [...]

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Wirral First

July 12, 2011
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Although libertarians are instinctively distrustful of any organisation seeking to make decisions that will affect their lives, it is obvious to most that all kinds of communal decisions do need to be made and the authority to make them has to be invested in someone. What is important is that decision making should happen at [...]

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Libertarian-bodice rippers.

June 12, 2011
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Stuart Fairney sent me his new book, ‘Single Acts of Tyranny’, to read last week. Until I forced myself to read the Millennium trilogy a few weeks ago, I hadn’t read a novel in years. No time; I only just manage to keep up with the political sagas, the legal news, the current affairs – [...]

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Hiding in Plain View.

May 12, 2011
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Sitting in on one of those interminable Social Services conferences, the question of the ‘subject’s’ past mental health came up. “No, he’d never attempted suicide before, but he had been a counsellor for the Samaritans for many years”, it was said with a knowing nod. “Not another one” came the response from across the table. [...]

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The ‘Scrambled Egg’ Brigade.

February 14, 2011

The Minister for Climate Change, a Canute figure forever muttering ‘Back dastardly warming’ to himself; The Under-Secretary for the Rubber Band Cupboard; The Chief Executive of the National Committee on the Numerical Sequence of Egg Cartons; how many times have you heard a man gloomily refer to himself as ‘the Sous-Chef’ when he has accomplished [...]

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus – Dictator Then, Dictator Now

January 17, 2011

On Saturday Ed Miliband gave a speech at a conference organised by the Fabian Society, by doing so he is endorsing an organisation that is the closest I can equate to an unethical, amoral resident evil still in our midst from a period of of our history that we should not be proud of, let [...]

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