Archive for September, 2007

Must read article of the month - Stupid voters (and we are all stupid)

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in brian caplan, economics, rational voter, reason | 1 Comment »

Brian Caplan's 'The Myth of the Rational Voter' has been garnering a lot of attention, especially for an economics book. In this month's Reason he gives a summary of some of ... Read more..

Why this anti-Boris sentiment?

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in boris johnson, elections, london | 2 Comments »

I still don't get the anti-Boris sentiment. The man is clever and witty, but has cultivated his buffoon image, that may backfire, but that is no reason to dislike him, merely ... Read more..

Maggie and her two revolutions

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in localism, thatcher | 2 Comments »

Tom Clougherty over at the ASI blog has a comment on Simon Jenkins' s book 'Thatcher and Sons'. The key comment he makes was that there were two revolutions, the good ... Read more..

The poor don’t fret about income inequality

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 Posted in inequality, opporunity | 1 Comment »

This does seem very true, almost without exception, the loudest voices calling for greater income equality are the wealthy and the middle classes. Socialism was a very middle class phenomenon initially ... Read more..

Socialism for the 21st Century - keeping up the tradition

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in socialism, venezuela | No Comments »

The tradition of destroying people's lives that is. Chavez's brand of socialism* is destroying people's lives by putting private business out of business. Price controls are stifling the market, huge subsidies ... Read more..

Admin

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in admin | No Comments »

I really need to sort out some aspects of this blog. I really should spend some time with its theme. It is a bit blue... (although in keeping with my workplace ... Read more..

Arctic ice retreating - nothing to worry about…

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in climate change, environment, reporting | No Comments »

Division of Labour points out that this New York Times article includes a small snippet at the end: Sea ice around Antarctica has seen unusual winter expansions recently, and this week ... Read more..

Usmanov vs Tim Ireland and Craig Murray

Friday, September 21st, 2007 Posted in craig murray, free speech, tim ireland, usmanov | 22 Comments »

And Boris Johnson? (am I alone in finding that bit strange?) I'm sure you've seen this elsewhere and it should be obvious to you that I would come out defending free ... Read more..

An example of why I loathe Hilary Clinton

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in US predential race 2008, hilary clinton | 1 Comment »

She's no friend of freedom. She is no liberal, even when you take into account 'New Liberalism'. Her language is the language of a totalitarian. "There's no such thing as other ... Read more..

Things we should and shouldn’t do…

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Posted in environment, liberalism | 3 Comments »

for the environment. Things we should do: Tax pollution - that is CO2 emissions and emissions of other greenhouse gases in terms of climate change. Support new technology - perhaps Google can be ... Read more..

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