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Two Cheers For This Election Result
Mustela nivalis Two things I want to comment on with regard to the election: The predicament of Labour and the significance of the now upcoming EU referendum. Before the election people were harping on...
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Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “A Short History of Man – Progress and Decline”
Mustela nivalis Having escaped the Malthusian trap, is humanity now heading for a new limit to per capita growth and prosperity? This might be the conclusion after reading Professor Hans-Hermann...
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Islamism, Nationalism, Puritanism
Mustela nivalis The radical Islamists are undoubtedly puritans of a sort. And of a missionary kind as well, for whom the “sword” obviously plays a central role. It seems however that they are partly a...
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OBE for feminist activist – an awkward move by an embarrassed ruling class
Mustela nivalis James Delingpole has written an appropriately snarky piece, published on Breitbart, about feminist activist Caroline Criado-Perez receiving an OBE. Previously, Caroline C-P had...
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On the New Wave of Migrants
Mustela nivalis The rumblings in the world are increasing in volume and scope. Here are a few choice samples: The Greeks are emptying their accounts – i.e., they are pulling “euros” from various points...
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Greece has EU/IMF/ECB by the balls
Mustela nivalis Whatever else one might say about Marxists, there’s one thing they ain’t, and that’s stupid – they are clever in a streetwise sort of way. By calling a referendum at this stage, Greek...
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Another Sign The EU Is Dying: The Left Are Turning Away From It
Mustela nivalis It’s been an eventful few days in the EU. After the Greek referendum, which was their government’s last ditch attempt to stall the inevitable, there came the “marathon summit”. From...
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A Neomarxist is Crushed
Mustela nivalis Note: Last week a lengthy article appeared in the Guardian written by a guy called Paul Mason. The title of the piece was “The end of capitalism has begun”. It’s a long drivel and...
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“SyrianGirl” on the refugee crisis
Mustela nivalis Worth watching. (13 min) Here’s her introduction to the video: “There are a few things you should know about the Refugee Crisis- This video answers – Its being used to bomb the country...
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“QEen” Zoe Williams is ignorant or dishonest
Mustela nivalis Zoe Williams is a mainstream (Guardian) journalist and she is either ignorant or dishonest. (Spot the tautology.) She supports a “People’s QE”. About a month ago, even before Jeremy...
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Ownership: Self-made or delegated?
Mustela nivalis The subject of ownership is right at the centre of everything libertarian. John Locke laid down the principle: He who first appropriates an unowned object is the rightful owner. This is...
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Yesterday upon the stair I saw a TV set that wasn’t there
Mustela nivalis “BBC could get power to access private data”, the Telegraph informs us. In that article, we also find: “The review also suggests that new legislation could be introduced to prosecute...
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The “Social Gospel” of the CofE Bishops is in Fact a “Statist Gospel” – And:...
Mustela nivalis Here is a new article by Gary North. In it he attacks a) the promoters of the “social gospel”, i.e. Christians who think that because helping the poor etc. is the moral thing to do the...
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Thatcherism: What went wrong?
Mustela nivalis ‘“Economics is the method; the object is to change the soul,” Margaret Thatcher declared in 1981, revealing the way in which Thatcherism for her was always about transforming values...
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Christianity and “the rich”
Mustela nivalis The Bible is “an anti-socialist document”. This is one of the quintessential conclusions of Gary North’s multi-volume economic exegesis. However, how does this assertion equate with...
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The importance of being frivolous – how to inject our message into art
Mustela nivalis For serious reasons, we libertarians need to lighten up. We need to develop a way to express ourselves through art. Sean Gabb’s talk to the other LA, posted here recently, is well worth...
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Why Libertarianism Needs God
Mustela nivalis I believe that the reason why libertarianism isn’t getting anywhere is that it has nothing to counter the power of utopia. It quite rightly doesn’t have a utopia of its own, but without...
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Not in Defence of Stoning
Mustela nivalis Right from the start I will say this: I consider stoning to be a form of torture and that therefore its practice should be outlawed. Having said that, and having gone on record as a...
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Cult of Death: Modern Art and Would-be Tyrants
Mustela nivalis I won’t get into that fruitless debate about “what art is”. But what we can surely say is that anything that “society” considers to be “art” at any given time is a reflection of the...
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At A Local Election Count: A Report From The Frontline Of GramscoFabiaNazism
Mustela nivalis Ian B made a comment below yesterday’s post about the election which made me laugh: “I don’t mind people being thick, but they could at least have the decency to be enthusiastic thick...
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