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August 13th, 2005 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
 A minority of musicians not only dislike the capitalist world, but they believe they can eschew it. Some of them have set up the sort of micro-firms that capitalism makes so easy to do. So they have spurned being sub-contractors or suppliers to large firms, and have become entrepreneurs instead – and think of it as rebellion. – Richard D. North in Rich is Beautiful August 12th, 2005 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
GR: Do you think our technological civilization *is* fragile? SS: On the contrary, I think it’s immensely resilient. Note that famines generally occur in countries where peasant farmers are still the majority! It’s precisely the complexity that makes it so hard to damage; economies are like ecosystems, they’re more stable as they grow more complex. They work around damage. – Science Fiction writer S.M. Stirling (interviewed by Glenn Reynolds), stating something that is pretty obvious when you think about it. I think I would also argue that the global communications and global supply chains that have come into existence in the last few years make it dramatically more resilient rather than less. There are vastly more brains linked together and these supply chains actually contain massive redundancy. August 11th, 2005 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The Government uses a false dichotomy that liberty and security have to be traded off against each other. But you can indeed have both life and liberty. The freedom to express yourself short of inciting violence does not threaten security but bolsters it: I want to know exactly who my enemies are by reading their freely spoken words. And when they cross the line and incite people to terrorism, I want the Government to do the one thing with my tax money of which I approve: protect me from these nutters by throwing them in jail or out of the country.” – Perry de Havilland writing in today’s Times of London. August 10th, 2005 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
– Martha Kearney. Let us hope Gordon Brown was not watching, eh? August 8th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The Central American Free Trade Agreement is just at the beginning of a century of trade liberalisation, more significant and powerful than any previous wave of liberalisation. Europe and Britain can either choose to follow the path of America, Asia and China, or it should prepare for a century of decline. If the EU is to avoid long-term economic stagnation, it has to welcome globalisation – not fight it.” – Alex Singleton writing in The Business newspaper. August 6th, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Lords Chancellors are political appointees, and certainly should not be idealised. But our Dear Leader is widely believed not to know or care about the past. So that the following dialogue is fiction should not be a problem.
— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons Or is it more important to look tough and caution be damned? August 6th, 2005 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
The key to the intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx is at bottom a simple one: Karl Marx was a communist – Murray Rothbard (via Mises Economics Blog) August 3rd, 2005 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Economic freedom begets political freedom. Democracy alone, a la elections are not enough, we need a liberal democracy that circumscribe the domain of government to what Martin Wolf says “Under liberty, the state protects everybody from predators, not excluding itself”. Property rights begets individual ownership and that in turn promotes individual as well as economic freedom August 2nd, 2005 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
If anything, it is the failure of multiculturalism to generate real reciprocal respect and provide legitimate avenues to social participation that provides the psychotic self-justification the murderers indulge in as part of their vision of nirvana. – Andrew Jakubowicz, a sociology professor, explains to Australian newspaper readers that suicide bombers have nothing to do with Islam. July 24th, 2005 | 42 comments - (Comments are closed)
We maintain that the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ is not only inevitable but imperative. – Hizb Ut Tahrir (as quoted by the Daily Ablution) And there we have it: something that a radical Islamic group has said that I totally agree with. July 21st, 2005 | 76 comments - (Comments are closed)
“…my great grandparents who were Manchester free-trade liberals who read the Manchester Guardian, which was a liberal free trade newspaper, would I think be astonished to pick up the modern version of the Manchester Guardian to find that it has leapt the fence from being a free trade newspaper to being a luddite newspaper.” – Alan Beattie, World Trade Editor of the Financial Times, in this speech. July 20th, 2005 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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