The UK Libertarian

I think the reason I haven’t written any articles lately is partly because nothing surprises me anymore and seriously thinking about UK issues and writing long pieces on the topics is just frustrating. I could have written about the London riots but I feel like I’ve been saying it all over and over again. The [...]

I have a very personal interest in this story as I make almost all my income from online poker. I have had nothing to write about the issue because it just makes me mad thinking about it. Of course I’m lucky to live in the UK where we can still play online but the USA’s [...]

NB, I am not Davy Apparently NHS may shed 53,150 jobs, according to the anti-cuts organisation False Economy. Many mainstream media outlets have picked up on this report, presumably because it is a much scarier sounding, and therefore more exciting, figure than the Royal College of Nursing’s figure of 27,000. And it is scary, right? [...]

NB, I am not Davy. Like most comedic current affairs TV shows, Channel 4′s “10 O’Clock Live” isn’t exactly home to Libertarian wisdom or even elite political insight, yet I continue to find myself watching every week. Perhaps it’s because I’m fond of the humour from the majority of its cast, or perhaps it’s because [...]

NB, I am not Davy. This morning I got a letter from Asda that came with a long – and I mean LONG – form to fill in. The letter said that, for the interests of improving services to people, and storing valuable information for historical surveys, Asda would like me to fill in a [...]

Full disclosure: it’s my birthday, I’m 5 glasses of champagne in and I’m about to go to sleep. This can’t wait. From the BBC: Thousands are ‘at risk of alcohol death’ say doctors. I don’t know what makes me more sick, the state sponsored “liver disease specialists”, The Lancet for publishing their shite, the “coalition [...]

NB, I am not Davy I’m not going to debate the semantics of “regulation” in this article, I’ll just accept the common definition: government interventionism to direct or control an industry or area of industry. To start with, we must understand why regulation comes into effect in the first place. There are generally two major [...]