Archive for December, 2007

Arthur Seldon, the IEA, economic liberalism and the Liberals

Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in arthur seldon, economic liberalism, economics, iea, liberal democrats, liberalism | 4 Comments »

I've just read an interesting article from the Journal of Liberal History about Arthur Seldon, a founding member of the IEA and at the time Liberal activist. In those days, ... Read more..

A Polygamist Christmas

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in freedom, liberalism, marriage | No Comments »

I've just read this article describing Christmas in a polygamous family in the second half of the 20th Century. It tells of times when the family could not be together because ... Read more..

Supermarkets slammed for trying Fair Trade.

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in fair trade, supermarkets | 2 Comments »

Recently the results of a review into price fixing by the supermarkets was released. The anti-supermarket brigade celebrated, now they could point to how the evil supermarkets were raising prices! ... Read more..

Why I love Tesco

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Posted in supermarkets, tesco, the guardian | 4 Comments »

An excellent article, at of all places, The Grauniad. Choice quoatations: In 1919, after serving with the RAF during the first world war, 21-year-old Jack Cohen invested his £30 demob money in ... Read more..

Pressure under targets and under the market

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in choice, competition, economic liberalism, economics, education | 8 Comments »

Over at Charlotte Gore's blog Matthew Huntbach launches yet another attack on markets in education. This time he fails to understand the difference between the pressure to achieve centrally set targets ... Read more..

Good news from Venezuela

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in hugo chavez, venezuela | 2 Comments »

Dictator wannabe and darling of the anti-liberal left, Hugo Chavez, has been defeated in a referendum which would have granted him even more power. I'm not sure whether to be surprised ... Read more..

The Libertarian Party

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in libertarian alliance, libertarian party, libertarianism | 8 Comments »

It seems that some disaffected libertarians are trying to start a Libertarian Party. Its interesting that this is being started, especially given the Libertarian Alliance's position of not starting a political ... Read more..

Energy saving - at what cost?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in environment | No Comments »

An office of my acquaintance had a bit of a problem this morning. Nobody could log in to their computers. The cause, it turned out was some idiot who taken with ... Read more..