We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Samizdata slogan of the day

A few honest men are better than numbers
– Oliver Cromwell

Samizdata slogan of the day

Delectable! Her derriere is the very apogee of nadirs
– Overheard recently by Samizdata Illuminatus

Samizdata slogan of the day

They have an engine called the Press, whereby the people are deceived.
– C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p. 292

Samizdata slogan of the day

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual
– Thomas Jefferson

Samizdata slogan of the day

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
– G. K. Chesterton

The Illuminatus has eyes everywhere


(Photo: D. Amon)

…but who can help me identify the arcane Techno-mage, Transterrestrialist, Anglosphericaloid and, er, Pundit, who make up this sinister cabal before whom the world trembles?

Samizdata slogan of the day

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
– Hillare Belloc

Samizdata slogan of the day

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
– John C. Calhoun

Samizdata slogan of the day

Labour takes money from Sun readers and gives it to Guardian readers, who then decide how best it should be spent.
– Richard Littlejohn

Samizdata slogan of the day

Everyone wants peace – and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.
– Miles Kingston

The traitor class at work

So moves are afoot to lock the UK into the EU, sponsored by a man who is by any reasonable definition a traitor, by the name of Andrew Duff.

Pass whatever laws you wish, Andrew dear…as long as Britain maintains its own armed forces, ultimately British society can elect to rid itself of its onerous ties to socialist Europe, at bayonet point if required regardless of your meaningless legalisms… at which point it might be best for all concerned if you decided it would be prudent for you to stay in Brussels rather than come back to what you clearly do not regard as home.

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Samizdata slogan of the day

In the Victorian era a curious belief was prevalent that sovereign states ought to have governments that were reasonably efficient and solvent.
– Byron Farwell