Archive for the ‘Libertarianism’ Category

The General Scaffolding Council

I was skimming one of the debates, from 1984, about the changes to the law concerning the sale of reading glasses, now that a large part of the Hansard back catalogue is online. This is a case I was involved in, as the debate makes clear. This passage caught my eye (emphasis added):
The Earl of [...]

Irish liberty

The Irish Liberty Forum has moved to: http://irishlibertyforum.org/
I recommend the site strongly. Libertarianism gets associated with ZaNuLieBore crapola far too often and the Irish Libs are serious and thoughtful explorers of this seam of political thought.
(See also the Oxford Libertarian Society for serious libertarian thinking, often in the form of video lectures by visiting academics).

Constitutional monarchy

After the dislike of fractional reserve banking and the fondness for the gold standard, this is the third area I find bizarre about some libertarian thought, though this one applies only, so far as I am aware, to U.K. libertarians. Perhaps I’m slow on the uptake, but this was the subject that first made me [...]