Brian Micklethwait has compiled a handy list of British libertarian blogs of different shapes and sizes. And very distracting it is too.

PM Gordon Brown gets grilled on his dodgy expenses at Capitalists@Work.

And Nanny Knows Best has several postings on the murderous implications of buying teaspoons at local UK supermarkets.

The Welfare State We’re In makes the startling claim that the greater the legal protection given to categories of people (say ‘women’), the more they cost an employer so the fewer of them get employed.

An elegant piece by Picking Losers on how regulation skews risk-taking and therefore personal responsibility.

Finally, Panem et Circenses looks forward to the end of the Labour Party and the rise of a new progressive liberalism:

Labour’s defeat may spell the end of undisguised socialism in Britain. Liberalism, in its current guise, is dangerous because of its idealism and its continued flirtation with social and cultural Marxism (political correctness). Liberals may pretend to believe in freedom but they certainly do not believe in absolute private property, gun ownership or absolute freedom of speech.

However, they at least pay lip-service to freedom and profess to care about it. They accept the basic tenets of free market capitalism and are opposed to the surveillance state. All things considered, they are a dangerous foe but far less dangerous than socialists. Modern liberalism may be idealistic but it is not evil.

Oh if it were true.

By the way, Wikipedia gives the origin of the expression panem et circenses (bread and circuses) from the Satires of Juvenal – the Latin Accusative form of the two nouns, if anyone is interested.