Showing posts with label libertarianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libertarianism. Show all posts
Thursday, 2 January 2020

Conservatism - the home for grown up libertarians

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 Although you can't, of course, use the actual word 'conservatism': Many of the failures of today’s America are failures of ...
Sunday, 24 January 2016

Some more good stuff for your reading lists

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**** Bradford West Labour Party - more fun for the politics watcher "We would respectfully ask, out of courtesy, for a full explanatio...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

...but who will build the roads?

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The same sort of folk as built the last lot I guess. Next question please? ....
Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Ideology, ideology, ideology!

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At first the term "ideology" referred to the study of ideas and their origins. Over time this has transmogrified into our mode...
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Friday, 17 January 2014

Robert Heinlein - America's most important libertarian writer.

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**** Forget Ayn Rand, ignore Robert Nozick, push aside all the cacophony of recent writing about libertarian ideas. If you want to underst...
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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Freedom, choice, Nigel Farage and the unpleasantness of The Guardian

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**** The nannying fussbuckets have been in full cry what with plain packs, banning smoking on hospital grounds and the, almost certainly u...
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Monday, 26 August 2013

In which I get a little Marxist in the cause of minimum government

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**** This is quite a difficult thing for me to write - partly because I'm stepping out from the areas where I'm comfortable with m...
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Monday, 7 January 2013

The immigration question - or how to spot a libertarian

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**** Lots of people lay claim to being 'libertarian'. This credo is quite popular these days as people rant and rail against ...
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Monday, 12 November 2012

Where is this anti-state rhetoric that Tim Montgomerie fears so much? I don't hear it.

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**** Tim Montgomerie from his Conservative Home pulpit lays into the 'libertarians'. Not on the basis of a considered, reasoned s...
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Friday, 26 October 2012

Libertarianism is a political programme not a set of economic policy options

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**** The thing with criticisms of libertarianism is that people fail to understand that it is a political project - a desire to break the ...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012

You mights as well say "reassert the primacy of democratic politics over physics"

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**** I'd never heard of Dr William Partlett , so he fits his own description of "obscure scribbler". However, if he is to fu...
Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Freedom is the radical choice for capitalism's reform - lessons (and hope) from a schools debate

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**** I had a really enjoyable afternoon today at Beckfoot School in Bingley. I went along as a judge in the "Futures" debate - a...
Sunday, 5 September 2010

On Leeds Salon, libertarianism and the politics of 'red mist'

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A nice view of the Cow & Calf that I use to produce calm thought Friday teatime, sat with a pint of Leeds Best (which is the world’s fi...
Sunday, 16 May 2010

Indulgent ramblings on political position and a further chapter in my vain search

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*** The game of positioning ourselves within some accepted political taxonomy is a fascinating one but, for many of us, we end up wondering ...
Sunday, 14 March 2010

An (almost coherent) look at urban planning, conservatism and libertarianism

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*** A few days ago I wrote a piece about urban planning arguing that we are overplanned – we have lost the momentum of urban evolution rep...
Sunday, 18 October 2009

Is government futile? Two premises of government defined.

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It’s not often that I’m reminded of this truth – and never before by someone claiming to be a Liberal Democrat ! The first premise of govern...
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