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Home Secretary Charles Clarke has announced that there will be no public inquiry into the London bombings of July 7th; instead the Home Office will publish what was described on the BBC 10 o’clock news as a “narrative of events”. Will this be formally known as the “official story”, I wonder? December 13th, 2005 | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Society is something emergent that occurs when people interact with each other, you cannot point at it and you cannot owe it anything. When any politician says the word ‘society’, you can be damn sure what he really means is ‘the state’. December 7th, 2005 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
December 1st, 2005 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Samizdata’s informal motto is “guns ‘n’ girls”, but in this post you get neither. Instead you get a picture taken in Brussels of a fine, hand-rolled cigar and an American flag:  The man is Richard Miniter and the photo comes from this interview in The Brussels Journal under the title “America Is Winning the War on Terror, Says Expert”. November 23rd, 2005 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Tony Blair, asking MPs to support police detention without charge for up to 90 days. Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. November 10th, 2005 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
As masters of their estates, the rioters cock their legs and piss molotovs to provide the reek of burnt plastic that serves as their territorial marker. November 9th, 2005 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Yes, you read that correctly. And moreover he states that presidents do not create jobs, entrepreneurs do… Mister Bleeding Heart himself, Alan Frigging Alda! Follow the link and read the whole thing, I kid you not. I am chastened as clearly I must reappraise my views of the man and repent a few of the things I may have said about him in the past. Any moment now I fully expect to see a flock of pigs flying past my window! November 8th, 2005 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)
We may be wandering through a vast desert of stupidity, monstrosity and petty tyranny but never forget that there are some oases of sanity still to be found. One of them will blossom into life next month when the Libertarian Alliance Conference opens in London. True to tradition, the Conference features an impressive array of brilliant speakers who will deliver their pearls of wisdom to an audience of the enlightened. It is bound to be a uplifting experience. Book now and book with gusto. Your salvation may depend on it. October 27th, 2005 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
An Algerian man was arrested and put on trial in Belfast. We hope the evidence they have is of more substance than the mere presence of 25 disks of downloaded information on explosives. If that were ever to become a definition of crime in and of itself, I fear every technically inclined 14 year old in the Anglosphere would soon be imprisoned. The defendant was living not far from a neighborhood controlled by Protestant Paramilitaries, most likely due to the presence of cheap housing. October 23rd, 2005 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 21st, 2005 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Against the Government’s position, I can see no purpose in disputing that our helping to overthrow Saddam Hussein has inflamed Islamist totalitarian groups. Why deny what we should take pride in? October 11th, 2005 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
We embrace these concepts of the private sector, the marketplace and freedom of expression. So the contrast is stark and the choice is clear. October 10th, 2005 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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