Over in the USA the Republicans – boosted by Tea Party energy – look set to win big tomorrow in the latest rounds of US elections. Pundits pore away over why President Obama’s erstwhile omnipotent appeal has waned. Is he too aloof, too clever, too Left, too moderate? Has he […]
Brian Barder and I are deadly ideological rivals. He hews to a number of Old Labour-style positions which (for me) are like the sort of exhibits you find in the gloomier rooms of the Natural History Museum which no-one visits. More foreign aid! No to swingeing cuts in public services! […]
According to Iain Dale, the ‘right-wing’ blogosphere needs new blood: Left-of-centre blogs take up four of the top 10 places and seven of the top 20. Last year there was only one left-wing blog (Tom Harris) in the top 10 and four in the top 20. So does this indicate […]
Back from Warsaw this afternoon to find myself at 12th place on the 2010 Total Politics UK Libertarian Blog list. Up from 17th place last year, and just below the Adam Smith Institute. Wo! Big Libertarian climber this year is Anna Raccoon, jumping from from 13th place to 6th. Here […]
Here is an interesting account from Devil’s Knife of his participation in a public discussion on Freedom and all that. I can imagine that his account of the end of Friendly Societies had some people bemused, but it is an interesting story: As in other things where the state starts […]
Over at Business and Politics I brood on the dismal sniggering by UK business people when the Prime Minister informed them that he had summoned the UK’s Ambassadors back to London – and made them all fly economy class. Inappropriate. If you publicly sneer at your own team, won’t everyone […]
Remember Richard Murphy? The man who wants more tax, closely followed by lots more tax? Watching him and Tim Worstall slug it out is one of the UK’s best blog battles. Anyway, Richard is taking up the government’s willingness to let the public suggest stupid laws for abolition. He suggests getting […]
A neat little piece here, getting to the heart of Reality – and where Reality meets Politicians. Not a place politicians much like, as it shows too much about them: “Plug the damn hole,” Obama told them. That’s the politician’s answer to every intractable problem: give orders, issue threats, and […]
Let’s start with a brilliant resource for all Brit bloggers: localmouth, a way to find local blogs wherever you are in the UK. Hover somewhere near Oxford and you might find mine. A wonderful example of the way intelligent networked pluralism helps mobilise human creativity without busybody official statist help. […]
I think I have solved the problem of how best to elect a BH Presidency in a fair non-ethnic way. Walking the dawg through the mud of Oxfordshire has its uses. Two Options (Note – based on what might be acceptable to the main parties). Option One: Ethnicity Lite The […]
