The worse the better
Perhaps I would not go quite so far as the Russian revolutionary Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky in regarding with delight any failure to reform the old regime on the grounds that more misery for the...
View ArticleMalala does not deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace (please read on)
She doesn’t deserve to be saddled with it. Having shown real courage she does not deserve to be inducted into a club many of whose existing members are so grotesque that the blogger Jim Miller has for...
View ArticleLoss of nerve: “just standing there watching”
Another one: Hampstead Ponds constables ‘failed to help’ drowning Moshe Greenfeld because of ‘dangerous and murky’ water The City of London has admitted that its health constabulary officers had not...
View ArticleBenevolent Laissez Faire conference on May 14th
I am being nudged by Simon Gibbs, who is organising it, to say something here, now, about this Libertarian Home event, about and against taxation. This event will happen on the afternoon of Saturday...
View ArticleManoeuvring the Benevolent Laissez Faire conference
Since Brian is busy exploring rooftops and mountains in the south of France, it is my turn to be “nudged” by conference organiser Simon Gibbs whose event is running this Saturday (May 14th). As Brian...
View ArticleThe ‘Clownocracy’ – modern Britain on show
A couple of unrelated incidents, and a political milestone all in the news today appear to me to sum up the ascendency of the ‘clown class’ in modern Britain, where personal responsibility and personal...
View ArticleTunnel Vision – Switzerland vs the United Kingdom
If tunnel building were an Olympic support, I suspect that Switzerland would bestride the top step of the podium and its virtually unknown national anthem would blare out to the cheering crowd,...
View ArticleThe poppy is not a symbol of remembrance…
…it is a symbol that the bearer has made a donation to the Royal British Legion’s Haig Fund. I thought it might be worth pointing that out bearing in mind recent kerfuffles.
View ArticleLife under communism…
Adriana Lukas, intermittently of this parish, will be giving a chat on the cheerful subject of Life under Communism. Turn up and meet assorted Samizdataistas at this Libertarian Home meetup event in...
View ArticleA ‘Fourth Amendment’ is badly needed, back in the Old Country
King George III’s troops and excise men outraged many of the colonialists (AIUI) with their searches and seizures, leading to the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. Amendment IV The right of the...
View ArticleAtlas shrugs as Sark faces the shocking truth about price controls
The island of Sark, a small, remote Channel Island, with a population somewhere around 500, part of the Duchy of Normandy and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, but almost entirely autonomous, noted for not...
View ArticleThe fall of the Temple of Reason
Terrible news from Paris of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral. As I write, I understand that not all is lost of this masterpiece. The collapsed spire was a 19th Century addition, but the damage must be...
View ArticleLawyers having a riot – in a hospital – some killed
I am surprised that this story from Pakistan – perhaps this is real ‘lawfare’? – Three die as marauding Pakistan lawyers rampage through cardiac hospital has not gained more attention, there is a...
View ArticleThe curiously underwhelming 2020 edition of International Women’s Day
OK, did anyone notice International Women’s Day? Get any emails? Read any stories about issues that concern women around the world, ranging from employment law through to their treatment in certain...
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This chicken has more freedom than anyone in Britain
Here is a free-range chicken in a layer flock at a site somewhere in Northamptonshire in the English Midlands. It roams free, it does not risk an unlimited fine for leaving its home without just...
View ArticleIs Italy heading for a (Terror-)Famine? Spanish press report
The ‘conservative’ Spanish newspaper/site abc.es. has a report about the food situation in Italy (in Spanish) which indicates the following, something our media seems to ignore, per my translation:...
View ArticleNigel Farage says ‘Say No to House Arrest’– and a perspective on Red China
A video blog from Nigel, asking questions in his usual style about the lockdown and what it is for, police behaviour, and posing some questions about the UK’s relations with China. Then a China...
View ArticleThe State’s lament: ‘A substantial number of people still do not feel...
Thus went the UK government’s discussion paper on increasing social distancing on 22nd March 2020. The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using...
View ArticleNatWest hints at its own bankruptcy? Saying it might have to exit the stage...
The bank formerly known as RBS, now called NatWest Bank PLC, has announced that if Scotland votes to leave the UK, it will move to London Britain’s NatWest would move its headquarters out of Scotland...
View ArticleThe future works, just as it is being stolen from us, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...
The future of the flying car is finally arriving, a flying car, the AirCar, has completed a test flight between two airports in Slovakia, reports the BBC. This wonderful development brought to us by...
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