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Charlotte & DK Sum Up Libertarianism

July 17th, 2009

In a recent post discussing Charlotte ‘The last libertarian in the Lib Dems’ Gore, The Devil points to her writing I do actually remember the days when I’d say, “The Government should stop people from doing X” and think, you know, the people who want to do X? They’re scum, aren’t they? Who cares what [...]

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That Philip Pullman Article

March 6th, 2009

Because everyone should read it, despite spineless backpeddling at the Times Are such things done on Albion’s shore? “The image of this nation that haunts me most powerfully is that of the sleeping giant Albion in William Blake’s prophetic books. Sleep, profound and inveterate slumber: that is the condition of Britain today. We do not [...]

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Conference on Modern Liberty

December 16th, 2008

Via the LPUK Blog I came across this link to a conference taking place in February in London. Supported by the Guardian (Apparently not ironically), and involving a number of speakers from differing groups, the programme looks interesting. I may well book up, although there do seem to be some rather incongruous elements, such as [...]

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Unmaking Britain

October 12th, 2008

Cory Doctorow gives the point of view of an immigrant to the UK on the encroaching police state. I, like many in the UK, have a number of friends who are immigrants. Hell, my great, great grandfather was a Ukrainian Jew and goodness what others have added something so my mongrel mix. Despite this, the [...]

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