You might be a Right-Libertarian if…

…You hate it when people bitch at you for being selfish, then turn to Ayn Rand for ethics.

…You hate the idea of businesses or unions gaining special privileges through Government, but then act as if Libertopia is Tesco minus the State.

…You advocate a form of Capitalism that’s never actually existed ever, but hate [...]

High Society

Last weekend, I found myself in London with an Australian friend (“I’m outside the big church thing!” “You mean Parliament?” “Yeah!”). On Saturday morning, though, I was on my own and so headed off to the Wellcome Collection’s High Society exhibit.

Given my pretty stringent anti-prohibition stance, any exhibit that deals with “Mind altering drugs [...]

Congrats to Kevin Carson!

I first saw via Prof. Roderick Long that Kevin Carson has won FEE’s first Hoffman Prize for his article on Transport subsidies.

KC is one of my favourite libertarian writers today; and that was true even before I realized he was right about lots of things, and I was still clutching to my quite orthodox, [...]

Why I don’t vote

And if you do, you suck.

Sorry for lack of blogging. Snowed under studies wise.

Security v liberty, redux (for @TomHarrisMP)

Any minister who puts civil liberties ahead of security should be in student politics, not government.

Says Lord Tom of Harris. I really wouldn’t mind if he only gave up his civil liberties; but his job is to take them away from everyone.

Now, Twitter, on the whole, seems to be calling bullshit [...]

Joined up government of the day.

The US department of agriculture has a project called Dairy Management. Looks to be your regular, useless Quango.

Their new idea is to help Dominos pizza sales, which it has done by:

develop[ing] a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese, and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign.

Consumers [...]

CC the BBC

I keep being told by various people- bloggers, musicians and unfunny comedians mostly- to buy a new song by some guy by the name of Mitch Benn which has just been released in single format, although it’s been online for a while now. The song is called Proud of the BBC.

Well, ok. [...]

A charity you most certainly should not give to.

I like charity. I like the idea of voluntarily giving a hand to those who are down on their luck, or forced into situations they’d rather not be in by duress.

You know what I don’t like? Slimy, smug, prejudiced, hateful, privileged women with a smug sense of superiority, who are convinced they’re on some sort [...]


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