Archive for July, 2007
Marriage, civil partnerships and cohabitation
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 Posted in civil partnerships, cohabitation, contract, marriage | 3 Comments »
The Law Society has proposed that cohabiting couples should by default have protection if they split up. I am opposed to this- taking on responsibility towards another person should be done ... Read more..Moving
Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in personal | 3 Comments »
Finally we have a roof over our heads. Soon we will even have a bed! After much looking, several disasters, battles with evil estate agents and even more evil landlords my ... Read more..Metronet and part privatisation
Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in PPP, metronet, nationalisation, transport for london | No Comments »
The Metronet debacle has inevitably led to the unions and other groups to call for renationalisation of the London Underground. The logic is that since Metronet has gone bust the part ... Read more..Drugs and sport
Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in liberalism | 1 Comment »
With yet another drugs scandal hitting the world of cycling and Barry Bonds is set to break the all-time home run record performance enhancing drugs in sports is back on ... Read more..Venezuela slides further to totalitarianism
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in hugo chavez, totalitarianism, venezuela | 4 Comments »
Will the left ever stop supporting Chavez? Probably not, too many still support Castro... In its seemingly unstoppable slide to totalitarianism Chavez has now decreed that critical foreigners are to be ... Read more..Libertarianism in the Republicans
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 Posted in US, US predential race 2008, liberalism, libertarianism, republicans | 1 Comment »
I've been told that the US republican party is the most libertarian party and the best bet for libertarians in the US. This doesn't fly well with me. As opposed as ... Read more..Money back guarantee for the NHS
Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in healthcare | No Comments »
The excellent Marginal Revolution highlights this report in the New York Times. Essentially Johnson & Johnson have declared that they will sell their cancer drug Velcade to the NHS on the ... Read more..How liberalism was lost:
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 Posted in coercion, conservatives, force, liberalism, libertarianism, quotations | 13 Comments »
As anyone who knows me probably knows, one of my biggest annoyances is the way the word liberalism has been perverted by socialists, statists and conservatives to mean the opposite ... Read more..I think I’m a bad LibDem
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 Posted in activists, elections, liberal democrats | 4 Comments »
I have a confession. I don't find bye elections that interesting. I will admit to enjoying the suspense of election night and the more substantial arguments during major campaigns can be ... Read more..The future according to Worstall
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 Posted in future, tim worstall | No Comments »
The future is not, as Orwell forecast, a boot stamping on a human face, forever. It is our masters and rulers, grinning wildly and slightly sweaty, bansturbating madly. Sounds about right... Read more..