Archive for March, 2007

Choice in education

Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in education, freedom, liberalism, paternalism, the state | 1 Comment »

One of the arguments I've come across against choice and a market in education is that some parents won't make use of that choice. This may be true, but there are ... Read more..

A strange musical day

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Posted in gong, kermit, music | No Comments »

I'm having an interesting musical day today. I rediscovered my love of Gong and have been listening to as much of the Radio Gnome Invisible series as have have at the ... Read more..

Venezuela slides further towards disaster

Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in ant-Americanism, economics, farming, globalisation institute, hugo chavez, left wing, socialism, venezuela | 2 Comments »

Hugo Chavez is following in Mugabe's footsteps and seizing land to 'redistribute' and install collective farming. This policy has recently been tried in Zimbabwe and has been a spectacular failure, taking ... Read more..

Liberals and privacy

Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in ID cards, RFID, civil liberties, computing, freedom, government, liberalism, security, technology, terrorism, the state | No Comments »

The BBC is reporting the release of a new privacy report by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The line Tony Blair and other technocrats should take on board is: No technology is ... Read more..

Liberal Music

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in liberalism, music | 1 Comment »

Since the right wing blogs are getting all excited about finding right wing music (and Iain Dale shows us the the Tories are still as jingoistic as ever) I've decided ... Read more..

Fear of the unknown

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in fear, globalisation institute, immigration | No Comments »

From The Globalisation Institute I found this. According to recent surveys, an increasing number of Hungarians oppose the immigration of Pirese to their country. Never heard of them? The Pirese were ... Read more..

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Saturday, March 17th, 2007 Posted in cafe hayek, don boudreaux, statistics, the economist | No Comments »

Two good articles about how misleading statistics can be if you don't look at other factors: First up is Don Boudreaux who usually writes at Cafe Hayek showing how the oft-quoted ... Read more..

More on the CAP

Friday, March 16th, 2007 Posted in EU, common agriculture policy, farming, free trade, globalisation institute | 1 Comment »

The Globalisation Institute has something on the latest absurdity of the CAP, and Tom Papworth expands on it. Will the LibDems call for scrapping it yet? Read more..

Rent seeking farmers

Friday, March 16th, 2007 Posted in common agriculture policy, fair trade, farming, free trade, liberal democrats, liberalism, protectionism, tariffs, trade, wales | 1 Comment »

There's been a little lunacy emanating from the Welsh Liberal Democrats recently, but this really takes the biscuit. This is basically a call for tariffs and protectionism. Its a call for ... Read more..

Give a man a fish…

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in capitalism, development, freedom, globalisation, trade | No Comments »

I remember an Oxfam advert which went along the lines of 'Give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day. Teach a man to fish and ... Read more..

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