Author Archives for Brian Micklethwait
How are things really going in Falluja(h?)?
Smoking bans will Scotland teach England another lesson?
Drink coffee early! Drink coffee often!
Debating censorship on BBC Radio 5 Live
No reaching out please
Bush winning
British Anti-Americanism gone mad
How capitalism grows human capital as well the example of Hong Kong
"This was all 20 years ago and I'd rather it all went away"
Prison in Hong Kong is better than life in Vietnam
What is reasonable force?
Clinton rewritten
New realities - separate realities
Silence in church
The tale of the Satanic mariner
Samizdata quote of the day
Schedule 22
" victory by President Bush would be a severe blow and a great disappointment for all the terrorists in the World "
The false argument for state control from immeasurability
What sort of Cat?
Warren Kinsella: litigating as communicating
Democracy (and ID cards) versus liberty
Equatorial Guinea not paradise
Terrorists and creepy crawlies
He really loved Beethoven!
But we can immediately read it anyway
Navigating individuals
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"This clever man saw me on the telly..."
The micro-management of parenthood and of everything
The truth about Al Qaeda?
The Olympics versus democracy
Samizdata quote of the day
Some nuanced reactions to Bush-vs.-Kerry Debate One
How hockey sticks explain the relative attractions of statism and of free markets
Dogtors
On how legal traditions shape teaching traditions
Mark Steyn trashes John Kerry but is too kind to the Old Left
Kim Howells gets two out of four
How President Bush gets his enemies to choose the ground where they will die
Some more distributed intelligence
The Guardian gets it
Graduate jobsearch blues
Might Beslan be the turning of the tide?
The CNE Liberty Library (again)
Samizdata quote of the day
The strange non-death of the book
Reflections on a wedding
Martin Wolf on the World Bank
A blessed break from politics
David Carr considers Russia
From English danger to Texan safety
and a Thunderbird stood Trafalgar Square
No possibility
Being polite to Linda Ronstadt
Blogging as self-education
Bill Bryson journeys through science
Oil for ever?
Twenty20 on the up
Maria Sharapova comes to America and wins Wimbledon
Clarkeltine calls on PM to make case for British involvement in EEUUGGHH!
The enemies of the state are everywhere
Richard Seaman's photographs of the SpaceShipOne flight on June 21st
Mugabe lied about Zimbabwe harvest shock
Bring on the Vortex
Evening sun over Pimlico
The Organization for Political Collusion and Despoliation
Sorry!
Why Toby Micklethwait is so optimistic about UKIP
A camera that actually helps the motorist
The crime of urging people to obey the law
Red sail on the river
Yet more Euro/EUro-twaddle
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Some Viz letters
Indian education going well
Weather forecasts are up there with dentistry
The myth of the "wasted vote"
Natalie Solent on things becoming equally bad everywhere
Michael Moore is (so not) Cecile Dubois' idol
A national chain of cut-price primary schools
The new EUroParliament building in Brussels
Bad news and good news
Fire art
The Britain quagmire
Quote Unquote requotes
It is now being resisted so expect it soon
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Farting in the church of Kofi
Kilroy reaches his level of competence
Unplanned opposition to government internet snooping
The red line turns yellow
Chalk dust mayhem in the House of Commons
Cricketing while Zimbabwe starves
Two London ladies
Howard fails to make Lawrence honest
Beating hay fever with specific light
An evening in London town
Falling into the Mike Dickin trap
More fun from b3ta.com
How Greg Foxsmith helped Mike and Carla
The EU tells Hans-Martin Tillack to shut up
The destruction of the Zimbabwean cricket team
But are all the "unintended consequences" really so unintended?
Hail to the hail!
Kofi Annan ignoble object of unearned worship
The Camel Corps gets a rubbishing
Self-cooling beer cans
Michael Cust on the libertarianism of South Park
Of meetings and plagues
Mobile phone music from some German Pandas
Guard your banana!
I may yet get to see America
Patrick Crozier says it will definitely be No
There are other reasons for working at home besides the miseries of travelling
Natalie Solent on what to do about hostage taking
The Asian boy boom
A driving holiday with a difference
Mandatory madness
Home work is not real!
Wife for sale
Praise for Probus Primary School
French medicine may not be so healthy after all
When absolutely not means coming soon
Brian on porn on Talk Sport
Nurse!!!
Andrew Sullivan on that Bin Laden truce offer
Good news from Pakistan
France against radical Islamism
The Guardian calls for the abolition of EU sugar subsidies
Is there perhaps a connection between the dangers of central planning and the dangers of genetic engineering?
Could someone do with 9/11 what Mel Gibson did with the crucifixion?
She can do no wrong but it is all her fault
Appassionata
Anti-Americanism as teacher testing
Slim gets the recognition he deserves (no thanks to the BBC)
Not the American President actually
Showing how the BBC and anti-capitalist bias go hand in hand
Another reason to want the England cricket team not to tour Zimbabwe this winter
Jacques Vergès will not defend Saddam Hussein but he is already attacking America
The prospect of private entrepreneurs in space
Richard Pipes on the relationship between Third World poverty and Communism
"One is dismayed "
EUrope grinds on
Skip school and turn your mother into a criminal
David Gillies on the non-punishment of academic cheating
Scottish tourism adverts on the telly
I do so hope they are right
Frédéric Bastiat looks at the entire world
The UKTV History channel - underestimating Ronald Reagan and his rocket men
Dimitri Shostakovich was a very nervous man
The youth of Europe in the path of the irrelevant steamroller
The government's wind
Francis Gilbert on educational sovietisation
Sidney and Beatrice Webb on the abolition of profit making
Copyright law for images: what is it? and why is it so different to copyright law for sound recordings?
Further discussion of outsourcing
An actual Conservative policy
England play Ireland at Twickenham this afternoon and are looking good
I am giving a talk about culture in Brussels and I could use some help
Three English premier league footballers arrested and charged in Spain
The Barbarian Invasions the future belongs to me (but not to Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian)
The new Selfridges Birmingham I dislike it what does anyone else think?
The Wild West was not wild it was "hard work, trade, tedium, and peace"
"The sea level is not rising "
Business as usual in Nigeria
A surprising aside by Richard Dawkins about the free market
Bruce Cumings professor of idiocy
The dolls were only Presidents and Secretary Generals but now they are rock stars!
The politics of listed skirtings
The wisdom of pessimism how David Carr echoes Winston Churchill
Another of those What if?s
Spelling Bees and Melting Pots
You can tell that maths is in a bad way
Reflections on the future of the musical past
Benjamin Constant on how the Proliferation of Laws causes not just suffering but depravity
Larry Sechrest gets into some Texan bother
Back Brian for the Beeb!
Why the Coronado Bridge is long and curved instead of short and straight
An argument about the root cause of poverty
Irish row threatens the London Olympic bid
Our members are incompetent!
Are there (or will there ever be) search engines for pictures?
Pigeons are road users too
The BBC says that Tax Freedom Day came earlier in the Middle Ages
The fixed quantity of programming fallacy
Thoughts on a modern museum
Friend or Foe? What Americans should know about the European Union
Michael Jennings on the surprisingly long history of colour photography
Support Cecile du Bois
More tunnelling under that moral high ground
Two new libertarian blogs
Jeremy Clarkson technological historian
Benjamin Constant as translated by Dennis O'Keeffe
Sinfonia killed the orchestral musician
Aid doesn't
James Lileks on how space travel cures paraplegia
London Bridge Tower is going up all 1,016 feet of it
Diplomacy is threats
Signs of the times
The decline of EUro-science
Polly Toynbee libertarian agitator
Excessive law is no law
Invisible cameras in the pavement? What is to be done?
Virginia Postrel's The Substance of Style: yes, and ?
Why William Dalrymple says that the West is losing the War on Terrorism
How a libertarian can love Whit Stillman
Mark Steyn on Elia Kazan
India means that cricket has a great future and how England could still be part of it
Hayek's reputation evolves
A clash of the titans: NGOs versus USA
"They looked at what you were eating they looked at the way you raised your children "
The world's daftest skyscraper
Melting pot Britain
Our kid is dumber than your kid!
Good news concerning the Chinese educational private sector
Norman Lebrecht and the death of classical music
Michael Jennings - your questions answered
An odd use of a word by the BBC
Baldrick's revenge - Britain's Real Monarch is an Australian bloke called Mike!
How our rulers were made to listen to the Listeners' Law
Earthquakes in Iran
Anti-EUrope posters
Quote unquote: Winston Churchill on false optimism
Madsen Pirie wins his battle for red pantiles
A clash of sporting titans in Melbourne
Santa also has turtles
Taxing Christmas
Frank Rich on Dean and the Internet
Christmas stamps for the age of post-Christianity
Nietzsche for beginners
Mary Seacole the "black Florence Nightingale"
A technical question
The new age of Czarism (and of Czar Czarism)
Alan Little on why Nazi Germany was even worse than the USSR
Yes Alice something happened
The other big story yesterday
Goodness gracious great balls of ice
He's alive I tell you!!
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Our fascist son-of-a-bitch
"Reports are coming in "
Revolutionary Communist Party as in Living Marxism as in LM as in Spiked and Institute of Ideas I agree with George Monbiot: who are these people?
What La France is doing about Muslim headscarves
On believing in America but not believing in Britain
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Girly guns versus the Art Nazis
A lively speech
Suppose it gets much cheaper to put stuff in earth orbit then what?
How many taxes does Britain have?
Keeping a close eye on porn
Where the social gulf is now thoughts after a Christmas Party and on long-distance bus travel
Denis Dutton on Mike Moore (and piano playing)
The decline of NHS nursing
Sculpture to die for
Have your say and be ignored
The sooner she's Lady Lea the better
Sounds good to me
From luxury to necessity
Is New Hampshire going to be subjected to regime change?
Mugabe cheated in election shock
Market-dominant minorities of the world unite!
England's Rugby World Cup win and the retreat from emotional incontinence
What is the difference between 'freedom' and 'liberty'?
Dramatising the spam problem
Spain is starting to catch the British EUro-disease
China learns English
Dead man's mobile ringing
The happiness argument for capitalism and the misery argument against the state
World Toilet Day
England in the Rugby World Cup Final and France hung out to dry
American companies "told to close down" in Britain
"Safety is dangerous"
Maurice Saatchi on soundbites
The joy of other people's misfortunes
Doing nothing is an option
Zimbabwe's negative image abroad
A shortage of sand in Saudi Arabia
Nothing to do with ideology?
Michael Howard and the Conservative opportunity
The Israelis (and you if you buy one) can now shoot round corners
"The halls are awash with the sound of mucus "
Mr Justice ZZZZZZZZ
The menace of "delivering outcomes"
The dogs of Conservatism fighting now, hunting soon
Heat and light at the LSE
Free State Project in the New York Times
How ideas spread and get acted on the weight of numbers fallacy
List of Common Law rights anybody?
No Child Left Behind different lessons to the ones they thought
Hydro-electric power with a difference
How India is booming by "shaking off its statist shackles"
Britain's best selling living novelist sees where we're coming from
Altered images
No wonder they're going to have a penal inquiry
How the Hitlerisation of British history teaching may be saving British Independence
"Pots of money suddenly appear and disappear ..."
I reckon it's Just The Thing
Nearly a World Cup Rugby upset
The Attack Dog barks on the office intercom
Thought control
A Californian lesson
The LSE Hayek Society is going stronger than ever
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Financial improvement
How the Rugby World Cup might influence British party politics
Adequate sound is adequate what matters is not being interrupted: thoughts on digital radio, SACD and the historic reissue business
Buy the Canon PowerShot A70 and explain it to me that's what friends are for
ASI pessimism
The ideological war: Alex Singleton on the significance of individuals and of small teams
Tony Martin does a deal and Sean Gabb does some more broadcasting
Hitler's home in Homes & Gardens
Sean Gabb meets Tony Martin in Oxfordshire
The new Adam Smith Institute blog is launched today
alicebachini.com
All hail the new Stephen Pollard blog
Sweden says NO to the Euro
Big brands getting even bigger by giving it away
An oriental Linux-based front-end Windows killer?
Barbie ban
Junk phoners junk phoned
And the news is that the news we just said may not have actually happened
Who's a clever boy?
On keeping friends by not trying to influence them
ID numbers and Hidden Europe
Floating luxury bus anyone?
Last minute success
Comic O'Grady issues savage gun threat to gob-sh**e burglars
The ultimate diet pill
Earnings
Hell gets a bit cooler
A BBC radio day
Higher education debates
Girl's stuff
Magic ink on magic paper
The case against compelling children to go to school
Not such good news after all on the Euro front
Before/after what retouching looks like
Chelsea 2 Leicester City 1 thoughts on why football is so popular
Underwear that brings you pleasant liberty
David Sucher on the necessity of states to contrive and maintain "infrastructure"
Madsen saw Arnie coming
Brendon Fearon is dishonest shock
Abolish all agricultural subsidies! - Giving leftism a libertarian hook
Sir Ernest Benn seeks to avoid transatlantic misunderstanding
Grandma socialism
Pessimism, precaution and the nature of the lawyer threat
How MI6 is now being upstaged by St George
Dr Kim puts a zigzag in what remains of Alex Malo's small intestine
Boring
Web brilliance
Quote unquote: Alison Wolf on the economics of education
A new ye olde car park
Why Natalie Solent's new Janome MyLock 644D overlocker is better than Cuba
Joined up government collides with itself
The BBC versus the blogosphere
The British government is failing its exams
Did Star Wars win the Cold War or was it superfluous?
Paul Johnson has written a book about art
Niche achievement versus dispersed failure Steve Sailer (and me) on race relations
Blair as Nixon
Portable phones in Baghdad someone has got it right
Lana likes chewing gum and wants to learn more about Singapore
We're Brians and we're proud
Wankers rejoice!
Immortality pills from Boston
Quote unquote: Portillo on Blair
Blair not looking good any more
Mammoth project
The moral hazards of healthcare
A little foreign aid
The gay right to discriminate
Here's where we'll have the immigration flamewar please
Terence Kealey on the fall of the Roman Empire
On the particular and the universal how the Internet has shifted the balance
Labour could lose the next general election because ...
A nouveau kind of trottoir
Fourth of July photos
Not completely cool
Bienvenu to the Molinari Institute
The Blank Slate in the London Underground
Regime Change inc.
My Way Saddam Hussein update
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He died his way
High rise nightmares
A temporary work of art
Africa a suggestion
Sean Gabb on what is in a name
What Samizdata is all about
What was going through Martin Johnson's head? - a sporting reply to savour
Bloggers! - The future belongs to us
Andrew Sullivan on Hillary Clinton and me on the globalisation of the "who we are" question
Alchemy or insanity?
The va-va-voom issue who's right versus who we are
A surprising commentary on the New York Times
So how do we feel about cruise missile control?
The not great Duranty (and the other Duranty)
Legalise the lot!
The British Islamofascist menace more than a ripping yarn from the BBC
"There are excessive plenty of beautiful girls"
The significance of the new Test Match Cricket international ranking system
Crozier visions
Quote unquote: on giving up smoking
DUKWs in London
Cricket is drawing English attention back to Zimbabwe
Flying without flyers
Further proof of how weird other people can be
Liberty Club marches on
Islamofascism in retreat
Tesco moisturised and elasticated No Fuss 2 in 1 anti-dandruff shampoo and conditioner
A different angle on Robert Mugabe
Harry Potter - literature that has escaped the LitCrits
Quote unquote
Hislop takes a swipe at the EU on BBC TV and it will be on again tonight
Comments on Salingaros
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Why the Minister of Education wants Bolton to be relegated
SARS is the health of the state
How printing caused nationalism
Michael Jennings on digital TV
A conjecture concerning children's toys and the current popularity of Modern Art
The new Rolls-Royce Phantom - an eyewitness account
Further reflections on the new Rolls Royce Phantom
William Shawcross on the world we live in now
Silly Easter stuff
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Two cheers for the media
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Poetry
Defending Anglosphere sauces against Japanese musical attack
Laser guided concrete a conjecture about why the Iraqi army "melted away"
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Where are the dead Iraqis to be seen?
When did soldiers also become receptionists?
On how the British Army does it
Hell's athletes
What a race!
Jumping bears
Another reason to want Gulf War II to finish soon
The truth about buses
What France is playing at a conjecture from and about L'Europe
" doilible snoiggal wacespink disclorping thription .. illarptacture "
The American Voice in Britain
The sun shines in Dublin Ireland 6 England 42 Grand Slam England
Including Troy and excluding Troy Britain's current education policy
A different angle on bias
The home front
Operation Grand Slam
More like Portsmouth
Discourage the BBC with a comment here
When Scrappleface gets serious
What if the wait turns out to be worth it?
Steven Pinker on modern art
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A verbal straw in the wind reflections on the globalisation of politics
The aesthetics of car parks let's have some!
What life at university should be like
A Hamlet for our time
On portable phones and their various uses and impacts
On hate-speaking and law-making
Picture this and this
A superb new London building
Now that's what I call culture
Economists behaving oddly
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"Anyone can do it!"
The War Against Terror how Conservative fortunes could finally be changing
Entrepreneurial relief for migraine sufferers
Rugby - and more on cricket
Stephen Pollard
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800Mhz toaster
We three ships from Middle Orient are
It won't end with Iraq
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Steve Davies on the Conservative Party dilemma: The New Whigs versus The Old Tories
Tom Wolfe on Nature, Nurture, Individual Responsibility and How to Write Novels
Is Blair now in real trouble?
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Price Roads! Cut Taxes!
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Cricket explained as briefly as I can manage (i.e. not very)
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The Zimbabwe disaster
Celebrating celebrity
Rent His Chest
Free the world relax about Delaware
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Micklethwait's Law of Negotiated Misery
Blogosphere blogosphere on the screen: who's the most famous one you've seen?
The new lords of the manor
Super Bowl Sunday parity in the USA and life in England
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Concerning celebrities and politics and bloggers and blogging
The British home-education debate is it about to hot up?
Seventeenth century blogger supreme pepysdiary.com
Bananas etc.
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Front pages from around the world
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Zimbabwe - mass murder is not cricket
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Tit-for-Tat doesn't explain us but it does explain Homo Sovieticus
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Mecca-Cola
The computer screen, attention spans and the birth of blogging - thoughts on "settling down" to read something
Family business: Columbine cakes
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"A complicated issue"
Swiffer!
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Gun educating house dad
Happy new year to everyone and maybe even to the Conservatives!
Might it work? or is it just pie in the SkyTran?
1940 How the non-nationalist saved his nation when the nationalists couldn't
535 AD
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Confiscatory service
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Adjustable spectacles from an Oxford physics professor - £6 a pair and they last a lifetime
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Computer woes
Retailer sovereignty
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A blogger lunches with a real journalist
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Art is not science
The rise of the amateur Foreign Correspondent
How much does it cost to ring a country?
Well when was the fifteenth century?
"Muddy Waters? Where's that?"
On why Molly Ringwald never became a regular movie star
ID cards (again)
A call for Islamic Protestantism a story worth watching
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Going for broke but not going broke
Chief Moose versus the Wolves - on not letting the Bad Guys see The Clue coming at them until it's too late
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Is Japan only pretending to be doing badly?
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Now the Internet is really taking off
David Warren wrestles with Islam
New tyrants for old
A Liberal Democrat challenge to Sean Gabb
An Old Whig in action and perhaps a new blogger
The Stockholm Network
You don't ignore them all the time
Spelling out Cato's new gun rights campaign
Virtual trains in two dimensions (and in three?)
Wheelmen
BEdBlogging BEdBlogging BEdBlogging
Happiness is a prophecy of doom proved right
Muhammed and Lenin the similarities and the differences
Australia a correction!!
Bubble bubble
Cricket the Anglo-Australian contrast
Stuff
The not quite so secret after all service
False hopes
Gum scum
The crime of home-schooling
The unnatural heroism of Gary Cooper
A different angle on the Kingdom
"Don't let them suck the blood out of New South Wales!"
Bali bomb bind
An evening with the Hayek Society
Horse's arse spotting
That conference I salute Our Great Leader Tame
"Whenever I use the word Europeans, I don't mean the Brits"
Remembrance of bloggage past
Computerised libertarianism
The Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International conference some first reactions
High art - low art - art
When I'm not cleaning windows
Blogs across the sea
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Links that won't be
We're all going to be rich
Brian's Education Blog
Liberty Log now looking good
Classical villainy
"Witchfinding" a retraction
Glenn Reynolds on the public safety calculation debate
Witchfinding in Dallas
Ratmailing versus blogging
Good links and a creepy link
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A peace outbreak?
Crozier on Clarkson on Brunel
Art to the left - art to the right
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The blogosphere now has a Pulse
Blood and oil
Madonna: too scary to be a star
Some gun law links and another one please
A small but enviable world
Pussy stuff?
Joke ova
The Crozier Vision of Japan
The Nobel Prize for Evil
"Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks"
Comments that deserve better
The USSR and all that jazz
On what the EU means to Slovakia
Eastern European Idylls
Liberty in a liberal setting
Another open letter to Shams Ali
Blair-bloggers on the warpath
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Dogs and dog people is Jan Fennell the new alpha-dog-expert?
There's no business like Shakespeare's business
If Shams Ali ruled the world
Simpsonia
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3Q&3A
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A meme machine at work
Greetings from Wales
New from the Libertarian Alliance: Benjamin Tucker and intellectual property rights
Let them hate provided that they hear
Why do people think that Britain is overcrowded?
American arguments about English guns
Scott Ritter All American good guy
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The blogs versus the hacks
How to die in an airplane
New York: radioactivity but not much media activity
Not a Nazi and not an anti-semite - just an anti-communist
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The lone blogger
Electronic communication a threat to and an enabler of liberty
Morality and legality
Griefometric correction
More griefometry
Tranzis love Linux
Spin
Capturing the crisp market
"Opposition to Brussels is becoming fashionable" Thoughts on The Divide
Louw on principles
Gray consistency - again
The regulation business
Mark ?? is Marc Morano
The consistent pessimism of John Gray
Thoughts while listening to Newsnight "principled stands" not being taken
An early medical alternative
Guns, the attack on home schooling, and the growth of the libertarian movement
Iraq or the €uro
Legislation – legislation – legislation
Modern houses are better than they look
Is the average house in Britain really so bad?
Me on Rand - courtesy of the Sunday Times
The Brown government
Musical blogging
Golf and taking liberties
"In the evening, I feel tired!" remembering Friedrich Hayek
Scab Pride and a multitasking daughter
Golf and liberty
Why Eastenders leads to Big Government
The latest publications from the Libertarian Alliance
"You're only allowed to come in dressed as a terrorist if you are a terrorist!"
The Tiger defends freedom of association
Two and a half blogules
Fat doesn't make you fat after all!
Watching the bird-watchers
'UK Transport' isn't only about UK transport
Chris Woodhead now disapproves of state education
The Good Muslims should copy the Good Blacks
Viking Direct versus BT Indirect
Cricket quotas in South Africa - good news
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Where I agree with the Creationists
More on synthetic phonics
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Art as aftermath
Synthetic phonics
The joy of Prospect
The violence of imposed order - and how to escape it
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Don't legislate - just communicate
Drip, drip, drip,
Teamwork
Women as human hi-fi sets
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A reason to be cheerful?
Hernando de Soto speaks
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The Randians and fixed-sum economics
The blogosphere expands
Too much World Cup
Going to Be Rather Interesting?
More on the Safety Calculation Debate
On starting and winning a Public Safety Calculation Debate
Scoring goals and fighting symptoms
More American soccer fans
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American dramas
American anti-Americanism
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Friday nights with the London
Portugal 0 South Korea 1 - oh yeah, and "trade justice"
Not ignoring Islam anymore
On anti-capitalism (and anti-anti-capitalism)
The European angle
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Americans against the EU
More praise for skyscrapers
Avoiding state school violence by going private
With further apologies to all our soccerphobes...
Make it big!
News from gun-free Britain: "Doctors to be taught battlefield surgery in inner-city hospitals as gun crime rises"
Yet more soccer talk
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Liberty Conference (again)
Russ's angels
The night life of a Soccer dad
Ireland update!
Finally - an Anglosphere victory in the World Cup!
Is it as secret as it seems?
Optimism, Royalty, Europe...
Liberty Conference - June 8th
A reason to be cheerful
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UK Transport motoring on
Lord of the Rings quote quest fulfilled
The formula for low taxes
Quote hunt help wanted
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Tax, guns, prams, Kylie Minogue
"People who don't own guns don't get shot as often as people who do"
You never know who else might be listening
The truth bounces back from across the Atlantic
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Which way did your pram face?
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A is A and Antoine is Antoine
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Limitations
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Left bloggage?
Big Brother's other job
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Nasty governments versus the Internet
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Civilisations clashing in Holland
The menace of the Precautionary Principle
Count me out!
Blogosophy
RAC backs road pricing
Load! Fire! Take Aim!
Political Correctness is often just good manners
I'm going to be on Talk Sport Radio
Like I say
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Fisking Engel
Style rebels
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Another cheer for Brink Lindsey's Against The Dead Hand
Things to argue about in London when you're weird
Tomorrow's World a new even more miniature computer keyboard
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Pfizer - capitalists who support capitalism
Unfortunately the new EUroflag may actually work
Peace takes time - and isn't necessarily nice
"Give me a definition of racist."
UK Transport challenges: one from and one to
Domination in Australia
Whisky - Whiskey - Wiskee?
Adriana, please...
Whisky Whiskey
On the radio in Euro-Britain
Natalie Solent's keybo8rd'z fixed and some (national stereo) typing
A comparison from Scotland and (if necessary) a Scottish introduction
How do you now sell classical music?
Another Britblog!!! "Freedom and Whisky"
Not really a slogan - more like a description of how life goes
Chris Cooper's Blog
The gun did good
VAT on Norwegian tattoos where do you draw the line?
Soccer, football, fussball, foozeball
Football is Effen(berg) well not boring
Face to face with the St. Andrews libertarians
Solzhenitsyn: Why I've been reading about him, and why they didn't kill him
Another Samizdata blogger sends reports from afar
"For want of a better word..."
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I prefer "Melting Pot"
Multiculturalism one word, two meanings
UK Transport continues to delight
Stoicism versus Emotional Incontinence
Blogging won't stop
I hate demonstrating
Samizdata slogan of the day
Inconsistent meddling might be better
Blairbour losing Conservatives not gaining Further gains for the Sod-You-All Party
A speculation about the unity of the United States provoked by the Oscars
Why don't you ?
"Leave me alone!"
Kristine Löwe on European drugs policies
Internalising the positive externalities of the Jubilee Line
A free market in education
The new global dilemma: Phone versus Zone
The Japanese Railway system a free market success story?
The University of St. Andrews Liberty Club starts 'The Liberty Log'
Marie Claire asking about incest
What if?
Wanted: Lazar Berman's version of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto
St. Andrews is at it again
Don't write off the Japanese
Something (to talk about) for the weekend
The Liberty Fund web site - and David Friedman on the economics of mugging
Adriana Cronin, spam, eggs, spam, spam, Illinois Libertarian Party, spam, spam, bacon, spam, spam, spam,
The joy of genetic engineering
The life of Brian
Another thing that technology is about to do for us
Sounds like a qualified declaration of British independence to me
The non-political joy of sport
In praise of renting and to hell with owning
The joy of musical shopping
A question for Perry concerning an airborne bloodsucker
I'm Feeling Better Now Thank You
On becoming a Small Fish in a Big Pond
A possible explaination for the "America snubs Britain" stories
And another member of the Samizdata team is revealed
Is the honeymoon over?
Guns, libertarians and criminal certainty
