Monthly Archives: November 2003

Evangelical Christian approach to freedom

Fed up with christians who cannot seem to distinguish between issues. There are two manifestations of this in particular that I want to mention -
1) Anytime christians see something in the world they don’t agree with, they think we should seek to ban it. Not so very long ago I was in a [...]

The ‘Health Select Committee’

The papers today are reporting the findings of the House of Commons ‘Health Select Committee’ - and they have irritated me intensely. They were yesterday hearing ‘witnesses’ from McDonalds, Cadbury’s (chocolate), Pepsi, and Kelloggs, called in by the government. You know, Big Brother. Tut-tut, Ronald- you’ve been producing burgers again, haven’t you. [...]

Haves & have nots

I read an article in the Guardian on Friday which astounded me. It was, as is normal for the Guardian, written by a lefty commentator regarding the current debate on how we pay for higher education. The usual bleatings - how awful it would be that students would owe so much money after [...]

What is libertarianism?

by Tibor Machan
Libertarianism is the political position according to which every adult human individual is sovereign, self-governing, not a subject of government or king or society or even God unless he or she has freely chosen such a status. The idea arose slowly in human history and was first known as classical liberalism, with such [...]

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