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Sorry for the site and forum downtime, things should now be back to normal

EDIT: 30th June: Apologies again for the 24 hours the site has been down. Again this was a problem with trying to wrestle with the new control panel. The database passwords got reset which meant wordpress couldn’t connect anymore so had to figure all that out. Cheers for the patience! Apologies for the occasional downtime [...]

I must only use these powers for good…

Spotted on Reddit, had to post it here: If this is your first time visiting The UK Libertarian do not be put off by the lack of updates recently. There is a wealth of archived material found by clicking through on the ‘categories’ links on the right. Here are a few quick links: Articles Economics [...]

How close are we to ending coercion against children?

There’s an interesting discussion going on at the forums regarding the always difficult issue of how children fit into the libertarian framework of non-aggression and self-ownership. You can join in the conversation here but the reason I’m making this quick post is to share what Buckley has written on the topic, which deserves a wider [...]

The state is the Mafia

Great post on the forums by Agalloch responding to the following: Are you seriously trying to say that our country is effectively being run by an entity analogous with the mafia? “100% Everything the state does, ever has done or ever will do can easily, only and best be explained by understanding this. They just [...]

Why it’s hard to debate statists

Great post on the forums by Dvide; nails it: When I used to listen to a lot of debates with prominent sceptics, it always struck me how easy it was for those promoting the supernatural. The people on the irrational side of the debate could simply make stuff up on the fly, where as the [...]

Forums fly past the 3000 post mark!

For those who aren’t already registered at our forums, please go ahead and do so. It’s probably the liveliest, open-access libertarian message board in the UK. With the 3000 post mark just passed I’ll recap a few of the best threads of the past few months: Why are most libertarians so obsessed with morality? I [...]

However evil we understand government to be… It is fundamentally good?

Very interesting discussion over at the forums. Agalloch writes: The problem here lies in an assumption, one that steps over the heads of logic and reason, by burning into our subconcious, that however evil we understand government to be… It is fundementally good. It doesn’t matter how bad the empirical evidence against government, for whatever [...]

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