Victorian libertarian

I am obliged to Johnathan Pearce at Samizdata for reference to this (a .pdf file), which is a brief biography, extracted from a larger one, of Lord Salisbury, who said:
“By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. [...]

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It almost restores one’s faith

WordPress has just wasted another morning for me. I’m getting tired of this.
I had written an optimistic article about a young gentleman to whom I spoke yesterday (and to whom I had given an LPUK card with the address of this blog on it).
The point was really that it is very encouraging to meet people [...]

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Shop’s open

Get your tasteful Libertarian tat here.
I like the T-shirt that says ‘Big Brother is not a game show.’

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‘Proper’ libertarian

Working backwards, for some reason.
Ill and Ancient reports a peculiar interchange elsewhere on the internet (which I take to be a polite euphemism for ‘on websites which people like us do not visit’), apparently resulting in the prescription of a list of criteria for being a libertarian blogger (to be quite honest I’m not at [...]

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Welfare-dependent libertarian

I wonder whether Al Jahom, who, debating the matter of benefits with mummylonglegs, says:
I’m having terrible difficulty reconciling the concept of a welfare-dependant libertarian…
…would consider me as a good example of such a thing.
I have been a libertarian for some time (though only recently a member of the LPUK). A few years ago my [...]

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Wait and see

I note with considerable interest the proposal of David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, that (among other things)
…the Libertarian Alliance wishes to see, will henceforth actively work online for, a government administration formed by the LPUK…
I have no idea what the response of the rest of the Libertarian Alliance might be to this proposal, nor [...]

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Something’s actually happening, Reg

[Python: Life of Brian]
At last, an actual post about politics.
The reason I don’t post all that much about politics, despite this being ostensibly a political blog, is (a) because I don’t actually know very much about it, knowing less perhaps only about economics, in which I’m not sure I believe at all, and (b) because [...]

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Thanks, but no thanks

I am honoured to have been invited by David Davis (the real one, not the Member for No Fixed Ethics) to contribute to the blog of the Libertarian Alliance.
For what I suppose I could describe as a tactical reason I feel that I should decline this invitation.
I am already a member of the LPUK, [...]

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Nice, or Nasty?

[Reposted in an attempt to correct text attributes. Old post removed]
The Devil:
Negative Libertarians are generally those whose emphasis is on the “leave me the fuck alone”—the “don’t tread on me”—aspects of libertarianism. They rail against the state because they want to get the state out of their lives; they tend, also, to be the greatest [...]

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The least costly solution

Guthrum, at Old Holborn, on the idea of a ‘free state’, concluding:
The Welfare State has sucked the life, morality and culture out of British way of life, and thrown it to the dogs of the far right and far left. In the ensuing political collapse, perhaps we have to accept that to escape the possibilities [...]

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