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The 5p “plastic bag charge” (only in effect in Wales… for the time being) is complete and utter insanity. Here are a few reasons, but there are doubtless many more: 1. The purported reason for the tax (which makes it illegal for companies to give away plastic bags at checkout, instead requiring them to charge [...]
N.B. I am not Davy Many people will often uphold democracy as true freedom. They will say democracy is representative of “the people”, that it is for “the people” and that it reflects the needs of “the people”. Some “libertarians”, who disagree, may say that democracy is 51% or more of the population against 49% or [...]
[WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don't want to see fairly graphic images then stop reading now or scroll down with a soft touch] David Cameron has described Jimmy Carr as “Morally wrong” for allegedly paying as low as 1% on his income taxes thanks [...]
Question: Do you think the state should regulate who has children and who doesn’t? If your answer to this is no, then I agree. I would guess that a large majority of people would answer the same. Most people feel like this is intuitively wrong. That it would be almost totalitarian. However if I were [...]
I’m going to cross post this here because I think it’s important. I originally posted this on my FB wall: WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU SHOULDN’T DISCUSS POLITICS AT THE DINNER TABLE? So if two people have a disagreement about their favourite film or their favourite ice cream or their preferred colour of duvet cover [...]
The following article was contributed by Hannah W. Let me start this by making a confession. I hate cyclists. In my opinion they are lycra-clad menaces to other road users and pedestrians. I even have some dodgy statistics to back up my argument, for example: did you know that deaths amongst cyclists increased by 7% [...]
NB, I am not Davy. Not exactly sure what prompted it, but good golly is George Monbiot not mincing any words about his thoughts on Libertarianism over at the Guardian. Sadly, all we get is a horrible collection of misrepresentation, straw-man arguments, demagoguery, and outright misunderstanding of basic Libertarian principles. Let’s take this a bit [...]
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