As ever, work life isn’t giving me much time to update this blog, or to be involved in politics at all for that matter. But I’m rooting for UKIP tonight . Yes, yes, yes. They’re not 100% libertarian. But they’re…
Twitter is up in arms — well, lefty twitter feminists are up in arms — about today’s Sun front page, featuring the recently deceased Reeva Steenkamp in her skimpies. It’s terrible, they say — this objectification of a woman who…
I’ve not really had time to blog at all lately — paid work, pesky thing that it is, keeps getting in the way. But this article in the Guardian deserved a quick response. On the issue of gay marriage (which,…
Ten things most people on the right agree on: Lower taxes. Reduce government spending. Leave the EU. Market reform or privatisation of many state services. Individual responsibility / an end to the nanny state. The right to self-defence. A free…
There are those who say that #Ollyshambles proves that UKIP is a mature political party – ready to start behaving like a unitary party and less like a “broad church”. I’m not one of them. In many ways UKIP resembles…
The Frosties Fiasco – and the fact that the Conservatives are actively considering it – slapping a tax or otherwise preventing the consumption of fatty and sugary foods – made me consider the best possible outcome of the next general…
As regular readers will know, I recently joined UKIP. I gave my reasons for doing so here. As a libertarian committed to reforming the system through gradual and voluntary, consensual change, better education, and marketisation within the democratic process, I…
A friend of mine came to stay this weekend. We’ve both been a little depressed of late. We’re both small business owners, often working sixteen hour days, constantly harassed by the government and the taxman. We’re both recently single. Add…
I can think of few more offensive policies – and few more revealing policies – this government presently has than the plan to slap a minimum price on alcohol. Firstly, it isn’t even a tax – it’s a market distorting…
I read with a mixture of admiration and disappointment that Japan has begun building a Maglev train network capable of a maximum speed of 310 miles per hour. The first working Maglev was built by a British professor at Imperial…
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