The UK Libertarian

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 [...]

I just finished listening to the audio of a Bryan Caplan lecture he delivered last year at the Applying Liberty Seminar. The topic of the talk was “Public opinion for libertarians” and it’s one of the most interesting lectures I’ve heard in a long time, in particular because it challenged a lot of the premises [...]

While we’re on the topic of drug logic from the last post. Why in the hell isn’t Ecstasy legal? The following statistics relate to the UK: 106,000 people die each year from smoking. [source] The most people to ever die in a single year from Ecstasy was 43 in 2001. [Source] There are around 10 [...]

From the Guardian: Ministers will not be required to seek the advice of scientists when making drug classification policy in future, under new government proposals. Honestly, I’m losing energy with this shit. It’s summed up perfectly by a comment I saw on another site: “Science gets in the way of disinformation.” Well precisely… Hammer, meet [...]

While discussing libertarianism with somebody on a message board recently I came to realise we were talking at cross purposes and so, seeking to define terms, asked them the following: “what does the term libertarianism mean to you?” he linked me to this page. What I read was a typically uneducated, ridiculous and, at first glance, trollish [...]

I find it hard to follow the global warming debate. Both sides seem to have a lot to say and working through all the evidence on both sides could take a lifetime. I tend towards the sceptical side, however, because it’s so politicised. In the past whenever I’ve seen politicians frothing at the mouth over an issue, [...]

Not exactly a libertarian video, but I wouldn’t want anybody to think I wasn’t a fan of science after the recent Dawkin’s post. I’ve been humming this for days; it makes me happy: