The UK Libertarian

Forget all the statist holidays celebrating dead kings or bloody wars; this October 1st we’re celebrating Voluntaryist Day!  If you haven’t already, join the Voluntaryist Day group on Facebook and spread the world. Edit: The day has now passed and the Facebook page is no more but keep October 1st in your calendar for 2013 and [...]

NB, I am not Davy. A common claim made against libertarians is that they “deny” global warming because it would require state powers to deal with it. This is quite a telling assertion and reveals as much, if not more, about statists as it does about libertarians. What the statists are basically saying with this [...]

Tom woods delivers a speech aimed at people who haven’t heard libertarian ideas before. The speech he would like to deliver to the nation if he had the platform. As usual it’s articulate, passionate, sometimes mesmerising. He doesn’t have the platform without us so let’s spread this far and wide. Send it to anybody you [...]

[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 [...]

The Pirate Bay has been blocked, by Virgin Media at least, by court order. 1984 came late but it’s arrived. Anybody affected by this would do well to research VPN tunnels or Usenet. You can also still access The Pirate Bay through some of its mirror sites. Here’s one that’s working currently.

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% [...]