Author Archives for Perry de Havilland
Europe's very selective attachment to democracy
Remember, remember the 5th of November...
It was hardly the victory of the forces of light over darkness
An urgent call to action!
And the stupid white man is...
Glenn in the Guardian
Election day... now that is when the really scary things happen
Two years until doomsday
Justice delayed is justice denied
So maybe Elvis really is alive!
Half a league onwards!
Nice one, 'arry
Yet another Blogger Bash...
The turning of the tide... 25 years on
UN to make the world a wonderful place... with your money
Putting the apparatus of repression into place
There is theft, and then there is THEFT
Tales from an alternate reality
Alien vs. Predator... but which is which?
Ah blogs, is there anything they can't do?
Lawyers in heartbreaking story...
Spyware is indeed criminal by its very nature
Government departments are named after whatever it is they seek to prevent
J.K. Rowling ... the Anti-Disney?
Please read the damn job decription
Of Hippos and Birds
Remain Vigilant!
Time to dump PayPal?
Is Science the 'new Latin'?
Christian Aid - as in Acquired Intelligence Deficiency?
Samizdata quote of the day
Confronting reality
The network is stronger than the node
A call to arms: answered
A call to arms...
Samizdata quote of the day
Sentiments for this day
Elvis has left the building... and so has Bin Laden
Samizdata quote of the day
Equality under law? Not any more
Always file under 'fiction'...
Then came the Neo-Muslims...
The face of the enemy
Samizdata quote of the day
Hey John, where is Cambodia?
Conrad Black... capitalist hero or zero?
Some moves in the right direction but must try harder...
The true cost of the political class
Now this is funny!
Che Guevara... just another dead thug
Making the world a better place?
High Noon in Najaf: a disastrous mistake?
Rude marketing deserves a rude response
Democrats against democracy
Samizdata quote of the day
Is there freedom of expression under British law?
Samizdata quote of the day
Investing in yourself is... bad?
Big names in the blogosphere
Outsourcing creates jobs at both ends!
Gib* the bastards
We need the oxygen of publicity
And speaking of movie reviews... meow
I am so ready to see this...
Fighting the attrition battle in Iraq
And the reason for so little activity on Samizdata.net tonight is...
A question for Mac Heads
Samizdata quote of the day
The Olympics and other sporting madness
Staying the course in Iraq
Standing fast... for three hundred years
How to get your snout deeper into the Euro-trough
Another party at Samizdata.net HQ...
The 2004 Big Brother Awards
Britain's emergency planning against terrorism
Tales of a future past
The state can take what the state wants to
Samizdata bash... on Waterloo Day (well, not quite)...
But who really mugged who?
The coming storm: Lord Butler's Inquiry
Who watches the watchdogs?
Samizdata is changing its software
On the subject of Anti-Americanism
Some guerilla marketing for Samizdata.net
A reply
Forget gymnastics... bring on the Psi Olympics!
Blogs need to have bouncers
Loosening the chains in Ireland
Getting the state out of the censorship business
Time to face down Iran
The EU needs Britain far more than Britain needs the EU
Saddam Hussain and Al Qaeda
Phoney arguments and real treaties
Another triumph of the French state
The last battle is at hand
Send a message to the Catholic Church in England
Three Party Politics, eh?
Under pressure
The story is what is hardly being covered in the Press
Blogs are not advertising channels
Mixed feeling at election time
A whiff of panic in the Tory Party?
Looking for some web savants
Pro-US protests are not tolerated in France
Quantum crypto continues to advance
Inching closer to a total state
A shameless plug for your money...
You cannot reason with Islamic fundamentalism
If you care about the Tory Party, vote UKIP
Here comes Tax Freedom Day in the UK...
So, you think your job is tough?
Confronting statism in Geneva
Trackback's finest hour
Whilst the Army fights, Parliamentarians posture
The interesting world of Blog Irish
Celebrating the Iron Lady
Time for a shake-up of military leadership in Iraq?
Dealing with one enemy at a time
ASI Blog update
Samizdata.net's output reduced... blame St. George
Samizdata.net's limits of tolerance
Do not underestimate Tony Blair
The French political class at work
A fascinating postscript in military history
Osama bin Laden seen with Elvis
We will bury you
Put the bullet where the finger points
A golden opportunity in Iraq
A flowing river of lies
The wellspring of lies
You do not own your genitalia
A resonant meme
The truth often ain't pretty
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reaps what he sows
Samizdata.net on the river Vltava
Samizdata quote of the day
China fears blogs
The clues are in the language
The moral and political vacuity of Britain's political parties
Beyond belief
The bizarre world of Pravda
Satire is a vital weapon
Samizdata.net... there and back again
A message to the international mass media
Indifference can also be a weapon
Neither forget nor forgive
Samizdata quote of the day
The state is not your friend... just ask Martha
Inequitable Life?
Server move... brief indigestion
Fusion power deja vu?
Kenya is not paradise...
How to create a large constituency in Britain guaranteed to vote Labour
The science fiction/fantasy genres means thinking out of the box
Making laws for laws sake
Perhaps Iraq can teach us something
There are few problems that are not made worse by passing laws
Most foreign aid is a crime based on a lie
Spying on the UN? I should bloody well hope so!
Educational conscription and its dissembling friends
Living in a gipsy community is a choice
Server burp
Echos from a vanished nation
Just the facts, Mel
Thou shalt
The planet is not flat, it is just that your little bit of it looks that way
Welcome! Well, sort of
Going for the zeitgest
More good works by the Dissident Frogman
What is better than a two day strike?
Samizdata quote of the day
The BBC is at it again...
As Indiana Jones once said...
Outsourcing is good for you
Point the finger of blame where it belongs
So you think you are cool under pressure?
What to blog... and what not to blog
A prediction...
When Social Workers attack!
The only rational response to Mugabe is violence
The pointlessness of working within the system
The Stupid Party strikes again
The reason for light blogging on Samizdata.net tonight
Guantanamo Bay... a great place to learn English!
Post-modern capitalism rulez, ok!
Samizdata quote of the day
Could this be an Anglo-Irish bonanza?
The walls of Samizdata.net
One hand giveth and the other taketh away
Radio Free Baghdad?
Misfortune is not licence for taking by force
The only thing astonishing about the Hutton report...
White London
Samizdata quote of the day
Bug stomping continues...
Welcome to the brave new Samizdata.net!
Possible 'service outage' imminent
Technical problems
The Frogman Strikes Again
Good riddance to pure evil
Freedom of Speech... but only if you don't upset the Guardian reading classes
Samizdata slogan of the day
Happy New Year from Samizdata.net
The triumph of the West
Samizdata.net's Christmas discontinuity
The envy of the world, eh?
We're baaaaack
Adam Smith Institute Christmas Party
Tales from darkest Chelsea
The morning after the night before... again
Warning: Impending Blogger Bash
Libertarian Alliance conference in London
Iraqi views of the London protest yesterday
Well done, Mr. Monbiot!
The caring people of London march against Bush
Josie Appleton on ID cards
Dissident Frogman rises to the challenge once again
Simple problem, simple solution
Freedom from expression, Wesley Clark style
The Times, they are a changin'
The tyranny of the majority
Too old to rock and roll, too young to die
Woodcutters cut wood. Politicians make laws.
Insanity in the USA
Political Compass. Oh gawd, not again...
What the BBC really had in mind for iCan
So what does Gordon Brown really believe in, I wonder?
Fired by Microsoft...
Resident Evil 2!
Samizdata.net server says... burp!
More fun with the BBC's iCan
The enemy of our enemy...
Liberty 2003: LA & LI
FCUK
A Samizdatista blogging on the go...
Anti-Activist Activism
The death of civil society?
Gosh, what a surprise!
The happy art of self-delusion
Odyssey across America
Attention London Bloggers!
Competition is the bane of the political classes
Samizdata.net @ The Hollywood Blogger Bash
The absurdity of the regulatory state
The perils of seeing everything through your ideology
In praise of Lord of the Rings...
The Free State Project have voted!
Some things are objectively evil
So what exactly is an art critic for?
Wandering bloggers
A cautionary tale
That rarest of rare things...
Gone to the blogs
Why I love the Internet, reason number 527
The end of civilization as we know it?
EU policy kills people in the Third World
Riding the dragon back home
Hunting dragons in Bratislava
A trip to Bratislava
Samizdata slogan of the day
Power blackouts hit USA and Canada... now the good news
Here is something rather marvelous...
Tow Story
The key to winning battles...
Samizdata.net via LiveJournal
Not surprising really
What lies at the heart of the environmental technocrat
The second age of the security camera
Views from Samizdata.net HQ
Who owns your body?
The mother of all category errors
FLASH: Uday and Qusay Hussein killed?
Technology is not the problem...
Tony Martin: Political Prisoner
Samizdata slogan of the day
War and Peace
Think Different
Another useful message
A howlingly good movie
Blog, blogs, everywhere
A Parliament of Bloggers?
What Bastille Day is all about
Accessory after the fact
Class War vs. Civil Rights
Another 'F' word...
The future of Iran?
Angel of Disappointments
3rd British Blogger Bash bashes on
Another London Blogger Bash is at hand!
"One nation, two systems"
Good news... bad news
The 'liberty' to run the economy by force
Anti-globalisation's long and colourful history
Walking in Orwell's footsteps
The birthday of a prophet
Big Brother distracts from the real Big Brother
Ah how sweet life is
Social individualists of the world unite!
It is going to be a spectacular year for gamers
Oops
We are capitalists, after all...
What is really going on in Europe?
A message to the European Union from Samizdata.net...
Why Andrew Sullivan does not thrill me
Some advice, please...
Tonight on BBC Radio 3
State...economy...same thing, right?
RDF and XML fixed!
Samizdata.net-on-the-BBC
Blogs are not democratic
A victim of our own success
Just the FACTs about blogging
Arrrrrrrgggggggg...
'Free speech' means that people will say things you do not want to hear
Have you ever noticed...
Big Media on Blogging
The Tory Party is not a pro-liberty party
The British Government caught red-handed
Another Public Service Announcement
It is a quagmire!
Why we are not Eurosceptics
The King is dead, long live the King!
Do you like being treated like a child?
There are collectives and there are... COLLECTIVES
Libertarian socialism?
Seeing modern Britain for what it is
More musings on the Political Compass
The world's dumbest political test
Salam Pax update
Samizdata re-emerging from Server Hell
Samizdata slogan of the day
Missing Texas Legislator Update!
One in the eye for Al Qaeda!
The House of Saud is built on sand
The Democrats are not that keen on democracy
City (Government) of (Fallen) Angels
The Frogman goes large!
There is no such thing as benign collectivism
Ah, conspiracy theories!
New stuff from Salam Pax
A tale of five flags
'Moronic' does not quite do this justice
The BBC says it the ways they see it
The enemy class in action again
The final cut?
Weights and measures for the 21st Century
The view outside
Democracy is not an end in and of itself
One year ago yesterday
X-cellent
The end of sanity in Britain
Bill Whittle fires up his jets
Tolerance has limits
Server problems
The Dixie Chicks
A splendid lesson for Blair
Server strangeness and The Move
... and pigs might fly
Ciao Benito
Possible disruption to Samizdata.net service
Blimey, I was wrong!
Iraq: the after action reports
'Hot-button' blog articles
ANZAC Day
Dead Fish
St. George's Day
The bleeding edge of genealogy
Blogger arrested!
More demented dadaism
Our friends, the German State
Blogging Damsel in distress
United Methodists take a moral Ba'ath
Osama's nightmare has come true
A meme in serious need of hijacking
An obscenity in the making
A strange moral calculus
Which Lord of the Rings villain are you?
Making Baghdad safe the NRA way
Un-ambivalence
Behold, the enemy is once again revealed
Axis of Feeble
The Hammer of God
The key to future prosperity
A problem of Turkey's own doing
A belated April Fool...
Baghdad has not fallen...
Patrick Ruffini...
The walls of Jericho
Apres moi, le déluge
Gordon Brown's budget
One in the eye for the BBC
Birds of a feather
Basra: latest news
Unofficial: Basra falls to UK forces
Welcome to objective reality in all its harsh glory
Britannia rules the waves
The good, the bad and the ugly
Turkey may have scored an 'own goal'
A blessing in disguise?
Good news! The casualties are mounting
The era of compressed expectation
Some objectives are in the eye of the beholder
The truth about those who protest
Iraq's post-Ba'athist future
Samizdata technical problems
No faint hearts there, it seems!
About bloody time!
Dangerous curves?
Covering the war
When is half a million not half a million?
Coolness under fire
Shock and awe
The first allied fatalities
The ground war starts
Quotes from the near future
The Butcher's Bill
For whom the bell tolls...
Reaping the cost of compromise
In her own words, she will be revealed...
The best of all possible worlds?
When anti-war means anti-liberty
The game's afoot!
Murder: justification by gender
Computer games for all tastes
An eerie hush...
Kapitalist Kalashnikov
Not in your name?
A dialogue between pukka libertarians
What it means to oppose the overthrow of Ba'athist Socialism in Iraq
The true face of collectivism on display in London
Almost live from the Pro-Saddam Hussain/Anti-liberation of the Iraqi People Protest
The Great Eye of Samizdata gazes at London
The morality of private property
Ban everything!
Games for the future
Saddam's 'useful idiots'
Beyond belief
Yes or no, Dr. Blix?
Never bet on a Dictator's rationality
How not to make a single player computer game
This could be the start of something rather interesting...
'Anti-liberation of Iraq' protests in Washington
Spare a thought for Zimbabwe
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
Samizdatistas suffering from a multiplicity of parties...
Take a stand for civil liberties
The casual acceptance of coercive politics
The search for the Holy Grail
London in Winter
Theft-free Farming
When Bad Dudes Attack!
When 'ownership' clashes with National Objectives
News from gun-free Britain
When lawyers attack!
A new dawn in Kenya?
LewRockwell.com adopts a deliberate no-brain strategy
Goodness, how far they have come!
The Prince of Fools
Concerned about cult cloning?
Merry Christmas
The art of seeing-the-whole-story
The Word according to Pinter
Loaded language from the right
Reason to rejoice!
Lawful killings
Who can figure Hollywood & the movie business?
What's mine is mine and what's yours...is mine too
Saddam's fellow traveller
Utterly bonkers!
Today is...
Blogospherical prenuptials
A meta-contextual dilemma for the Idiotarians
The real message
None are so blind as those who will not see
Evidence is so often trumped by emotional preference
Going Underground
Hello China
If there is a God...
Cyberpunk wetdream
28 days later...
Britain is indeed at war
The Blog is dead...Long live the Blog!
Good riddance
Just because something is passed down as folk lore...
The wellspring of Idiotarianism
The disease is global
A true British Scandal!
Sudden lack of bloggage
Tyrants love our lefties
Cause for concern?
Calling all well endowed Bloggers
George Dubya bites back
Why not reduce interests rates to zero then?
Archbishop to Iraqi people: please continue to drop dead
Bonfire Night
The nature of the beast
Happy Birthday to Samizdata.net!
A Gaggle of Geese, a Crash of Rhinos, a Pod of Whales, a Conspiracy of Lawyers...
Secrets of history revealed
Have a gruesome All Hallows Eve
Big Business is often the enemy of capitalism
Free Trade Area of Americas... but not that free
Big Brother is watching: a follow up
A new role for 'Conjugal Lawyers'?
What is blowing in the wind?
Nice one, Vladimir!
Computer bites man
Last night in London
Big Brother is watching: Not in 1984 but in 2002
The law does not apply to Romano Prodi
A temple to the Western Mind
Help the Australian Red Cross
Dear British Idiotarians...
No surprises from Sinn Fein/IRA
Want to exercise your rights?
How not to argue against libertarianism
Something to do with the Australian occupation of Palestine perhaps?
Rip out the roots
My mother's maiden name is g@tfu11
What the f**k do you THINK it means?
More to this than meets the eye
Bitter Girl needs a hand
The ongoing Tory Wake
'No to badness'
The world is a messy place
More on the LIBERTY 2002 Conference
Ireland: democracy in action
Europe 'wants leadership from Britain'
Human nature
Last night in Pimlico...
One click, you're guilty
The current threat level is...
Nice one, Alan!
Chuck her in Boston Harbour!
The trouble with Prince Charles
Now this is rather interesting!
EUroaches
Server problems
Why we march...
Military analysis with balls... and beer
The essence of capitalism?
Sasha Castel: Dangergirl!
Now this is unusual!
Somewhat to my surprise...
Which 'Farscape' character are you?
Did you come here looking for two particular articles?
Concern for the victim?
With all due respect
The view from the eyrie
LibertyForum press release
Unforeseen responses
Our friend, the State
The real England speaks
More from the Second British Blogger Bash
Second British Blogger Bash: aftermath
More discourse at 2B3
Early reports from 2B3
Do you know what today is?
There is only one type of morality
New rural bloggage!
Mouse threatens Cat
The logistics of tyranny
Tranzi: making the enemy flesh and blood
Blogospherical investigative reportage!
Looking for answers in all the wrong places
Comments
A pox on the RIAA
Curmudgeon of Honour?
European Copyright Directive
A 'Civil Interventionism' Directory
'Bags of Sense' reveals a great deal...
All the Newspeak fit to print
Saddam moves in mysterious ways
Slacking: a sign of more than you might think
The self-evident truth
The Inland Revenue spells it out
Samizdata.net regular e-mail addresses working again!
Pointing out the obvious to the oblivious
Billie Saletan slated
Samizdata e-mail horrors continue
Anglosphere attitudes
Another classic article from Transterrestrial Musings!
On this day in 1940
All hail PGP!
Europe: the total surveillance super-state
Progressive Democrats: no friends of liberty at all
Samizdata.net e-mail woes continue
Would you trust this man alone with an ailing elderly political party?
Happiness is a grumpy hippo
e-mail problems
A day of glory in Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles
Why the US fights the way it does
Thus always to tyrants
Society, law and custom
So what is a libertarian?
Bad cases do indeed make for bad law
On-line shops
Ok, then forget the moral and intellectual arguments
Calling all anti-Apartheid protesters
It is not the commerce but the collaboration
Pax Christi: Christ's Idiotarians
Yahoo's shocking complicity with the Chinese state
The United Nations as...a source of MORAL AUTHORITY?
Privacy protestors want to junk Juki Net
Presumably unintentional hilarity?
Samizdata slogan of the day
The reality of the European 'single market'
British shooter continues to defy the odds
Breaking the piggy banks
The day tripper vs. the power trippers
And some Englishmen don't think all that much of Leah either...
Strange views of the 'European' mind
Michigan's Ruling Communist Party?
The Commonwealth: tyranny acceptable, prosperity frowned on
Linkage due
Disney: the MacDonalds of popular 'culture'
Global tax cartel thwarted...for now
Rabbi Israel Zolli
Nicholas Van Wotsisface
24 July 1704
Fascism and Communism's enemies emerge from history's shadows
Samizdata.net...capitalist tools!
Sarah Lawrence: Samizdatista!
Thunderbirds are Go!
Britain's march towards perfection noted
The new Samizdata.net site
When is a 'Jewish Problem' not a problem?
European delusions of relevance
Nelson Mandela: a terrorist's best friend
Welcome to Samizdata.net!
So what are the choices then?
The long and winding road
Conservative statist family values in action
And po-faced, humourless hypocrites at that
An Anglosphere convergence we do not need
If the state is not any use when it comes to security...
The Irish? Who cares what the Irish want... we'll find some way to screw 'em!
Promise to distort our fragile post-communist economy with stolen money or we will not join your club
John Entwistle: as it should be
Extradition Bill is a legal obscenity
What is it about some libertarians?
Evil connivance between the Bolsheviks and Jewish bankers...
Libertarian for war... well kinda
US Conservatives for kidnapping
What a pity Mahathir Mohamad is going to retire
Security is found to be slipshod, so what does the state do?
Rand is not the enemy
The State...and its experts... do not know best
Taking a buzzsaw to Buzzflash
Poor Steven Bing
Big-mouth strikes again
A well mannered retreat but...
The Panopticon state suffers a setback
The degeneracy of the political class
It is a matter of personal choice, not 'public' health
The totalitarian mindset
12 exabytes of unique information...
Domain hosting hell
Libertarians, be careful of the 'A' word
This England
Making the 'Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act' moot
Filleting Fukuyama
Not really pro-monarchist but rather anti-political
Samizdata slogan of the day
A toast to the 'anti-democratic' and pleasingly powerless Monarchy
Sex, drugs, and rock & roll: a libertarian view from Andrew Dodge
e-mail problems yet again
Angst! Bikinis! Savage Pekingese Dogs!
Another benefit of the collectivist world view: The art of pointless annoyance
Still a travesty of 'justice'
I must be famous... I have my very own stalker
The Law is there to perpetuate the state, not protect its subjects
Robert Fisk, exemplar of The Big Lie?
Speaking of EU flags...
Welcome to the future, please stand still so your personal barcode can be scanned
There is no right to demand acceptance... but there is indeed a right to demand tolerance
Some notes about the Ministry of Truth
It must be something to do with the moon
Not the end of history and certainly not the end of libertarianism
Den of
The triumph of capitalism
What you see rather depends on where you stand
You have been supernationalised
News from the front lines of multiculturalism and relativism
In a free country..
Canadian government fires up the moral crack pipe again
A picture is worth a thousand words
Greetings to our antipodean readers on ANZAC Day
Preparing the ground
Uh oh, there goes the neighbourhood
A ghastly socialist beaten into third place by a ghastly fascist in France...
Good news for supporters of capitalism and supporters of Israel
Hugo Chavez in Venezuela: don't get too comfortable
None of the above
Which point in the process are you at?
E-mail problems
News from the 'not quite front line'
The ongoing fun in Afghanistan
The difference between rational moral selfishness and sociopathic selfishness
The trouble with kids these days...
Government Data Sharing: the bare faced affront of it
The Traitor Class have always been with us
The true meaning of 'joined up government'
Entrepreneurialism and culture
Another blogging article
The grass isn't always greener on the other side
Lets be clear on what really matters
Aftershocks in the networked global economy
Technical woes and marvels
Unqualified Offerings bursts back onto the Blogosphere!
"This picture seems strangely symbolic"
The intractable mess that is the Middle East
More news from the Den of Bad Dudes
Modern art that works for me
The Palestinian Götterdämmerung: the irrelevance of Arafat
Other libertarian perspectives
London Libertarians
Brian Micklethwait on BBC Radio 4 later today
Immigration and libertarians
George Bush adds $1,500 to cost of purchasing average new house in USA
Den of BadDudes
Citizenship: the state's way of saying it owns you
Blog linkage
Samizdata blog e-mail fixed!
Gibraltar: the Barbary Apes are still there
John Scalzi likes being smacked around
E-mail problems yet again
Holy Schismatronic Science Fiction Writers!
Heads or tails?
Gimme less money and maybe I will do what you want...
Harry Browne gets blogged over the he