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Sisyphus Shrugged
By now the emails will have gone out and news of my resignation as co-chair of Liberal Reform will have hit the Twittersphere. What will perhaps be more of a surprise is my confirmation here that yes, I am resigning … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Blogroll, Freedom, Liberal Reform, Liberty, Philosophy, Politics
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Lords Reform: Money Where Our Mouths Are?
News that the abject failure of the Coalition to reach a compromise on Lords reform has brought forth a distinctly typical response from we Lib Dems – dang it, we’re going to make speeches about it! The motion itself is … Continue reading
Libertarian Optimism
We’ve all done a Kerry McCarth in our time (if not been as daft as to tweet it from the position of being a public servant!). It used to happen to me a lot. Yet it’s something that simply doesn’t happen … Continue reading
Minimum Alcohol Pricing – Bottling It
Today’s news that the Scottish government is planning to increase the minimum price of alcohol to 50p a unit rather than the previously-stated 45p has been welcomed by Willie Rennie and the Scottish Lib Dems, despite the largest impact of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogroll, Conservatives, Freedom, Libertarian, Politics, Scotland
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You Gotta Fight For Your (Right To) Party!
It’s no real surprise that Roger Helmer MEP has defected to UKIP, the man becoming known as a right-wing fringe Conservative thanks to his views on, well, take your pick. I’d previously held a certain amount of sneaking respect for … Continue reading
Liberal Reform – The Aftermath
It’s been an especially exciting time in internal Liberal Democrat politics of late, as Liberal Reform took its first faltering steps into the world and received a wonderfully positive response, as laid out here. As mentioned there, my Lib Dem Voice … Continue reading
America 2012, part 2: The Little Guys
American politics is a bottomless morass that will suck you in deeper the further you wade into it. Such has been my experience, and now one randomly-planned and hastily-written blogpost has become three. Ron Paul’s day, as ever, is not … Continue reading
America 2012, part 1: Obama vs Romney
I’ve been following the run-up to the American election this November more casually than many of my fellow political aficionados. To be frank, I’m not yet embedded enough into party politics to be the sort of person who views the … Continue reading
Religion
No-one seems exactly sure who it was that first said ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’ (it’s been attributed to everyone from Elvis Costello to Frank Zappa) but it’s a favourite of mine, a wonderful summary of the … Continue reading
Rand & The Selfish Gene
It’s easy to find fault with controversial thinkers, and few are more controversial than Ayn Rand, mother of Objectivism. Her faults are plenty; I could quote Rand on homosexuality (“immoral and disgusting”) on Arabs (“savages”) or on American Indians (“a … Continue reading
