Freedom’s diverse fellow travellers
As Gabriel Syme wrote earlier today, the objective on this blog is to argue for a ‘broad front’ push to regain some ground lost to successive governments in the struggle for individual civil liberties....
View ArticleLittle Brother Is Watching You!
In a welcome turnabout for US citizens, MIT has launched the Government Information Awareness website. The website developer Ryan McKinley explains “Our goal is develop a technology which empowers...
View ArticleNew Liberty Director warns supermarkets: ‘We are watching you’
Shami Chakrabarti, the new director of Liberty, is planning a monitoring operation on Britain’s giant retailers. Chakrabarti, formerly a high-flying legal advisor to two home secretaries, takes up her...
View ArticleReaffirming the Freedom to think
Freedom is a basic value but its champions and its expression will appear in many different forms. White Rose, understandably, has recently concentrated on the technological developments that may...
View ArticleThe Listerner’s Law
A reader alerted us to an interesting vote happening on the Radio 4 today programme: vote for a law to be submitted to the House of Commons. So far there are five ‘Law Ideas’ and at No.5 is a bill to...
View ArticleMr Smith goes to Whitehall
Paul Smith is a man with a profound interest in driving and road safety. As a driver myself I, too, have a vested interest in these matters. Whenever I depart from point A I much prefer it to be...
View ArticleBig Brother Awards
For pictures and reporting from the Big Brother Awards check out Samizdata.net. We went, we booed, we blogged.
View ArticleIt’s the Database, Stupid!
The No2ID launch was held in the basement bar of The Corner Store in Covent Garden, a spacious restaurant/pub catering for the tourist trade. The attendance was good, with more and more interested...
View ArticleAn urgent call to action!
The No2ID campaign has established an e-petition aimed at 10 Downing Street demanding the end to plans for imposing mandatory ID cards and pervasive state databases recording a vast range of what you...
View ArticlePretty pledge
Jack Whitham of the University of York offers the code for rather a snazzy self updating banner. (Be warned, you may have to edit out some carriage returns if you cut and paste. I did.) It looks like...
View ArticleThe handbook for dissident bloggers
Reporters without Borders has produced a useful handbook for blogging in an unfree environment. We will be adding a sidebar link to this useful resource which has some technical tips that may be of...
View ArticleEric Raymond needs you
Eric Raymond is the reason I’m here. He’s the guy I found while learning about Linux who gave a name to my vague sense of injustice at having to pay tax and taught me that a libertarian is a thing....
View ArticleLibertarian Home video talks summarised
Libertarian Home holds speaker meetings on the first Thursday of every month. The most recent of these meetings featured a talk by Tim Evans. You can watch and listen to the whole of this talk, which...
View ArticleLess economy of truth, please: who kissed whom?
Punching back against PC lies – punching back “twice as hard” – is advice instapundit likes to offer. I wish I had a pound for all the times we instead push back half as hard, conceding one absurdity...
View ArticleLess economy of truth, please: who pays whom?
In today’s UK, we can only envy the US its first amendment, but Brits familiar with the PC narrative on race over here still find some US excesses hard to credit. Even Brits who hang out with lefties...
View ArticleA logical danger in PC illogic
(Normal service – i.e. prose – will be resumed promptly. I promised a follow-up poem about its being too easy to rebut the race scammers – or ‘race hustlers’ as is, I believe, the US term. Here it is.)...
View ArticleDisparate-Impact Anti-Semitism
Between Momentum activists complaining that Labour is “not helped by the fact that the BBC has a lot of Jewish journalists“ and Corbyn saying the BBC “has a bias towards saying that… Israel has a right...
View ArticleKristallnacht versus BLM
Goering (shouting): “Why did you not kill 200 Jews instead of destroying so many valuables!” Heydrich (defensively): “36 Jews were killed.” [Words uttered during ministerial discussion with a...
View ArticleHow does this ban fit with that rename?
It can be hard to keep the narrative consistent. It appears that BLM enthusiasts love anti-police murals but just hate the idea of a mural claiming that ‘Black preborn lives matter’. Evidently the...
View ArticleAre incentives better than commands – when the goal is fraud?
In the old days, Mayor Daley commanded his goons to “vote early, vote often” and Lyndon B. Johnson ordered his fixers to write down the vote tally required.. Etc. I think incentives work better than...
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