Libertarianism

On arriving at Libertarianism from a Quaker viewpoint.

November 17, 2010

I realise that I shall probably come in for some shtick for even mentioning any form of spiritual faith in the same breath as Libertarianism, Hey Ho! One of my readers picked up on the fact that I said that I had arrived at Libertarianism from ‘a Quaker vantage point’ and has asked me to [...]

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The ConDem’s greatest mistake so far.

July 30, 2010

Was not to cull the BBC on day two of the new government. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance said as much in a speech a few years ago: “Have no doubt that we are engaged in a cultural battle for the soul of Britain. Failure to defeat the ‘last bastion of  Fabianism’ will lead [...]

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My take on left libertarianism

May 20, 2010

For the purposes of this exercise, I will use the following definition of left-libertarianism: Left-libertarianism, as defended by contemporary theorists such as Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner, and Michael Otsuka, is a doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and has an egalitarian view concerning natural resources, believing that it is illegitimate for anyone [...]

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Libertarianism and the Doctrine of Free Speech.

August 18, 2009

Nothing exercises the Libertarian sense of impending moral outrage so much as those two little words ‘Free Speech’. It is said by some to be the very definition of Libertarianism. I consider myself to be a Libertarian; I believe that I possess a free will and that I should be free to do whatever I [...]

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Battered Rams.

July 22, 2009

There is a curious anomaly in the football world; in America, land of the free, football clubs are hedged in with rules, regulations, positive discrimination, revenue sharing, salary caps, and enough social mobility experiments to make a Labour politician swoon with pleasure, over here in the land of socialist government, football is allowed to operate [...]

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Why France? – part two.

May 25, 2009
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I am always leery of writing of life in France, it sets off an utterly predictable rash of knee jerk comments from fellow bloggers who seem to think that because one lives in Europe one has no right to comment on life in the UK – albeit that they frequently comment on life in Europe! [...]

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Marching towards an imposed morality……..

March 17, 2009

All law is imposed morality. Law is never neutral; it rewards certain behaviours and agreement with those values doesn’t make them any less of an imposed morality. Despite the fact that it stakes a high moral purpose, particularly after the excessive law making of Tony Blair’s government, and Gordon Brown’s claims to set a moral [...]

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