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March 10

Should real libertarians have a "Bad Conscience" on bank bailouts?

Most CCTV cameras are operating illegally?

Olympian police protectionism

Oh dear, Peers, two Peers and a webstorm

Called in...

February 10

For this we pay "regulators"?

Get ready for the bansturbators' "money shot"

Obama's Opportunity to show Rigourous Liberalism

Mutual Banking: William Batchelder Greene

Jock on Mutualism

Rigorous Liberalism, instinctive Liberalism

The State has arisen...

Co-operatives, Mutualism and the State

Money, money, money...in a Liberal world

Digital Economy: Lib Dems miss opportunity to be liberal...again

Instead of a Book: by a man too busy to write one

Listen with Jock: "Against Intellectual Property" by Stephan Kinsella

January 10

Crumbling cricket bats, Caroline! Spell me out some new legislation!

"Change": deliberate, disingenuous, dangerous deception

Mickey Mouse degrees?

The Man Versus The State

"A bold, imaginative, exciting,..." way to line the pockets of lazy landowners

Our Enemy, The State

Justice and defence the anarchist way

...and property is freedom!

Freedom is fair

The squeaky wheeled "trolleygarchy"

Christmas, Family Arguments and a New Year Resolution

December 09

I seem to have disappeared...

Jock's Christmas Climate Heresy?

Land Tax fail: do we pay members of the Monetary Policy Committee?

November 09

Difficult times

Today in parliament...

Geo-mutualism and the contemporary political establishment

October 09

Channeling your righteous Lib Dem anger towards Nutt 'n Johnson

The ACMD Needs YOU!

Geo-mutualism: the explanation

Nooooooooooooooooo!

So, you think government has a positive aspect?

Forget it George and Davie, we need a Big Idea now, and this time it's social-ism

Plus ca change...

Libertarian Alliance Conference - not got a spare £85?

Land and Libertarians

Why I became a libertarian - a personal statement.

September 09

No pitchforks...yet

Equidistance

"Mansion Tax": Not In My Name!

New Labour control freakery endangers children more?

August 09

Obamacare: why the US debate on healthcare should interest us

Social contract: why can only monkeys ride bikes?

Social Contract: do we own ourselves?

July 09

ID therefore I am

Educational conscription

Refuseniks

Tory defection in Norwich North: Labour win after all?

If you don't believe me...

Mistakes you'd find it hard to live with

Blogroll Updates

Millburn report: a glimpse into the fuckwitted futility of government.

This...

Vince and George: both singing from the statist hymn-book

From here to Liberty

Mercenaries of Liberty?

In which I am as repugnant as a racist

Somalia: a showcase for statelessness?

Mr Michael Martin

Balls-up: Schools white paper starkly highlights inefficiency and futility of public provision

June 09

Stopped and Searched

Speaker ballot: Am I bovvered?

"M" is for "Max"

On the AVes and AV-nots

Common Sense - in memoriam Thomas Paine

The Big Questions - Lib Dem on education

OffRAMP - The watcher of the watchmen?

Parliament (Dissolute) Bill 2009 [HC] (Amendment)

Changing Chancellors...a question

May 09

Blog's back...

Democracy itself, rather than the BNP, is the problem

Whensoever therefore the legislative (or the House of Common Thieves and Accomplices) shall transgress...

Troughing - it's what we voted for!

One is not enough

Reformation Britain: The Sovereignty of All Citizens

MPs' Expenses while councillors fiddle

April 09

Gurkha resettlement: only the tip of a very ugly mountain of discrimination

29.04.09: Budget Live-Blogging - Unemployment, Development, Agiculture and Roads

People's Budget Day

Breaking radio silence...

Herbert, Ludvig, Murray, Friedrich and Vince

Laugh? I nearly died...BBC Correspondent Nick Robinson Missing

March 09

"Never have so few been attacked so much by so many"

Tax havens are such old hat...

Taxing the rich - Fraser's error

Environmentalism - the new sky fairy?

Monetary Reform and G20

No - not the champion of civil liberties

For Jim Murphy and Vince Cable

Lib Dems on financial regulation - Swimming against the tide

Conference reports - spot the deliberate mistake

Selective education

Repute and Disrepute

Quake, California! The Prime Minister has said it is unacceptable...

No wonder Big Brother is worried

Where are the adventurous young bankers (II)?

Where are the adventurous young bankers?

Freddy and Gordo; same side of the problem

February 09

The "War on Bankers"

General Election: March 26th or June 4th?

Cabinet war papers: stupid tactics

Rambling elsewhere for 21st February 2009

Liberalism: we can't win the five wars without fighting the four battles

Remember the anti-war march?

Milliband on Wilders

Rambling elsewhere for 10th to 20th February 2009

Clegg slandering libertarians?

Which to hang: Blair or Milliband?

No Mick: One we predicted earlier

Liberator: Ignorant, Conformist and Poverty of Vision

Why do we bother making policy, Don?

Credit Crunch: a chain reaction starting at Number 11?

How the state corrupts the "free" market

Campaigning issue: A "Good Samaritan Act" for Britain?

The Third Sector, Fake Charities and Libertarianism

Money secrecy: the last taboo?

Rambling elsewhere for 8th & 9th February 2009

I don't want to believe...

25 Things

UPDATED: Central planning

You don't know how lucky you are boy

UPDATED: Who is the real Nutt?

Rambling elsewhere for 7th February 2009

Why I don't "tweet"*

British Jobs for British Workers?

Against uniformity

There is no such thing as a safe horse

Rambling elsewhere for 6th February 2009

Half a million people in the UK use it...

What did the Royal National Institute for the Blind mean...

Now this...

On being "dropped" by Kellogg

Rambling elsewhere for 5th February 2009

Inner Space

It's the end of the world as we know it...

"Rambling Elsewhere" and Atom Feeds

Rambling elsewhere for 4th February 2009

Torture

Cannabis: the evil weed?

Rambling elsewhere for 3rd February 2009

Liberty Central? Don't make me laugh!

Rambling elsewhere for 2nd February 2009

Oxford City Council II: Can't even sell the silver properly

Oxford City Council breaks uneasy ceasefire with Covered Market

Some little ramblings for the day...

My "Political Spectrum" objections

A few words for Gordon Brown

Dave's Dubious Davos Dialectic

January 09

Heath-row

Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke: Anything but capitalists

Euro: We should tell 'em where to stick it, Nick

Ask not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.

A new Financial Operating System - an Open Source alternative.

Any CSS experts out there?

All shook up

December 08

OX1 was wrong from the start, but returning to council is even worse

The Minister for Drugs (Legalization, Regulation and Taxation thereof)

Smoking...dirty, disgusting and...embarrassing

Suffolk police harrass 134 innocent people

Land and Libertarians

Useit, or usury? How much debt are you paying off?

November 08

Internet Outlaws

Baby P: where are the others?

Imagine that: Government in "making matters worse" shock!

Libertarians: torch bearers for big business?

Repent! For the end of the state is nigh!

October 08

Paying for Higher Education

Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008 (Part II)

Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008 (part I)

If you speed...

For those of you who think you know all there is to know about libertarianism because neo-liberal Ronald Reagan said...

Say hello to the "Community Finance Partnership"

Ministerial mendacity

Degrees of Mutualism

Nothing to hide, sir? Ooh! Suits you sir...

Discontent on Lib Dem benches?

The 61 TRILLION dollar question

Land. Value. Tax.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be...

Are drink drive laws liberal?

Which day will be our October 24th

A government of all the talents?

September 08

Mutual Ownership and the house price downturn

Isn't this just a little bit scary?

Private charity, voluntary co-operation or state welfare

Politicians: masters, or servants? And of whom?

2% of pound coins are fake? Big whoopie do!

Short selling

Three hundred years of lies, confidence tricks and outright fraud...

The Greenpeace Defense

A Legal Challenge

Blogging update...

August 08

Helicopter to snoop on speeders

Blogging will be light to non-existent...

Labour at odds over football plan

"Corporatisation" of government functions does not transfer responsibility

The internet, think-tanks and politicians

The BR Brute Squad

Why should the state validate your existence?

Olympic Spin: Jamaica on top, China in 45th

How should our details be protected?

First they took away Habeas Corpus...

BAA: Wrong Monopoly

Hari's Game: not even in the right ballpark

Oxford of a million minds: a bit of fun

"Cities Unlimited": who would be an economics boffin?

E's linked to schizophrenia risk

Olympic ideals?

Libertarian councillor and blogger under fire!

Jock's Top Ten

Is this Oxford Labour's "double devolution"?

ID Cards: BT Homehub supplier gets first contract

Today is the centenary of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908

July 08

Glasgow East, Safe Seat - why Labour lost and the SNP didn't really win it.

Calling councillors whose authorities use the "Uniform Public Access" planning application system...

It depresses the hell out of me...

Quelle Surprise: if you're a rich influential crackhead...

Gordon Brown: no mere human?

Land Tax and Citizens Income - further discussion...

Response to some comments on "Unconditional Benefits"

Unconditional benefits: now is the time to smash that "cosy consensus"

Iris Robinson, parliament and the Standards Board

Sarkozy's scheme two years behind Jock's!

Beginning of the end for VAT?

Education: chacun a son gout?

So farewell then, Morrell Hall

Fannie, Freddie, Africa and Europe in context

Co-op Group Somerfield disposals; an idea

Tax policy: one I made earlier

Guardian Friday Politics Quiz...is this right?

Plagiarising policies

If society is broken, it's only following its "leaders"

Data protection and the inexorable march of the snooping state

Fannie and Freddie expose fragile financial fabric

The knife is innocent; don't blame the knife!

Five Giants

Liberal Cornwall? The "Golden Triangle" tarnishes

Criminally Ridiculous Bureaucracy!

First there were "ants in your pants"...

Appropriate and proportionate?

Which region elected this Tory tosspot?

For any of you that believe "if you've got nothing to hide..."

Y I H8 G8

Liverpool and the 1793 Credit Crunch

Glasgow East: Blasted by the past?

From a Roman convert to his Anglican cousins...

Oxford Business Improvement District rejected

Second most interesting tree hacked to pieces

Protectionist Tory euro-snoopers

Silverstone: who should I be supporting?

Not enough power...

June 08

NHS: When I'm Sixty-Four

Gender equality in universities - EducationGuardian.co.uk

David Davis is the sort of person...

My Haltemprice and Howden connection

All quiet on the Western (EU) Front?

What a topsy turvey upside down world...Roy Jenkins he is not!

Congratulations, Councillor Mark Mills!

DUP - "The Undertakers of every Government"

Are you a "death enabler"?

If I *were* thinking of joining the Libertarian Party...

Three wise women

Dear Andrew: 42 days

Is non-intrusive road pricing possible?

Is the ban on "topping up" NHS treatment even legal...

Surveillance State: Select Committee catches on ten years too late?

42 days again: just who are all these people?

Will Vote for Food?

Let the train take the strain...not!

Rainy reflections...

Noye's Fludde?

Save the Stoke One

Spinning towards revolution?

May 08

URGENT - Conference Motion: Unfinished business

By-by-by-election

Jock's response: The positive case for negative campaigning

Quote needed...

Did I say never?

Never say never again?

April 08

Why you should vote Jock Coats, Liberal Democrat, on May 1st

Jock on drugs...

Two local examples of why land (and planning) reform is needed

Incentive to win? Or definition of insanity?

Being the "local candidate" at last!

New directorship

The supreme sacrifice?

Feel the fear...

42: Now what was the question?

March 08

Cardinal "Frankenstein" Keith

Getting around the drugs laws?

Labour's local election confusion

Protection or Free Trade - Tories debate

Conceived in iniquity, born in sin

A good budget for...

ALTERnative strategies

Drugs and deadly sins: unbiblical and unchristian

Housing policy: backing a lost cause!

Bread-heads and social enterprises

Vince Cable: some regrets but no splits

Economics as if people mattered

Facing both ways - the Tories needed someone else to blame for not having a referendum on Lisbon.

Q: When is a druggie not a druggie?

Is the Starving Man Free?

February 08

Jacqui Smith: how many have you condemned to death today?

The future's free, or very, very bleak indeed

Ricardo’s Law - The Great Tax Clawback Scam

Liechtenstolen

Habeas (the tiniest little bit of my) corpus

Evan harries the invincible Cable

Work-blog balance

Any twitterers out there - help me identify this bird?

January 08

Tory selection processes

Is there a point at which Liberal Democrats should want to leave the European Union?

Tony Blair: unwitting libertarian champion, or psychopath?

Yes, but it's our "thin air"

Something for nothing?

Call to prayer controversy - the truth is stranger...

Data loss, Clegg and politics - hanging the wrong problem on the right hook

Private Education and charitable status

Redesign, now with added "bling"

Ticket Reselling

The real "Liberal Conspiracy" starts here

Workfair - a question

Energy Islands

Slow blogging again

Manifesto Conference - to go or not?

Burma: Still fighting for independence

Faith based schools - a personal perspective

New Year's Resolution?

Shareware - the future of Intellectual Property?

December 07

No "LVT bug" I!

What has humanity done to deserve politics?

A new look for Christmas!

Oxford's rats in second division

But the trouble with "economic liberalism"...

The whole rationale of "economic liberalism"...

First they came for the Scientologists...

Finally, a ballot paper, and a moan at the world!

Managing Protest Around Parliament

Our man in Kabul?

Iran: not quite as mad as the Mullahs were made out to be.

Oxbridge Academies: history repeating itself?

Labour "Guinness Four" moment?

November 07

Financing politicians - it's our democracy that needs reforming

Brilliant, Vince...

Bargain!

Revolutionary Liberalism: 5 - The "Sovereign Individual"

A good day to mislay an MEP

Karim defection a blow for Nick Clegg?

Now available in China?

Evading responsibility, Oxford style

Kamm on Huhne's Nukes

A rare opportunity to disagree with James Graham!

That data, those cards and data protection, nuclear style

Three good reasons...

Now Clegg prolongs the spat

Do I look bovvered? The Blogs are the losers!

Peter Stothard: Lib Dem Alexis Rowell "genuinely represents"

Revolutionary Liberalism: 4 - "An unprecedented opportunity"

Carma

Cameron's vacuous localism

Conservatives, co-operators, war or peace?

"Conservative Co-operative" - a confidence trick?

Does Britain really only have one "neo-con"?

Bridge tolls and land values

Nick Clegg on Affordable Housing and LVT

If the left wants to rediscover their liberal roots, we should welcome them back!

Chris Huhne, Torygraph, Surveillance State non-story

Revolutionary Liberalism: 3 - Health, wealth and happiness

October 07

Huhne manifesto launch

Interruption of service - for some of you

Clegg-vision, and an apology

One poll doesn't make a trend but...

Landlord licensing

Jock elsewhere, green-blogging for Chris

Euro-ballot bonkers - lift the gag!

What a difference the Green Party makes!

Could there be a Lib Dem Granita pact?

Localising policy making

ID Cards - companies to target

Right vs Left; Protectionism vs Free Trade; Clegg vs Huhne?

The best reason for voting no in an EU referendum?

South Central Regional Conference: Community Land Trusts, Land Value Tax and Affordable Housing policy

Jonathan Matondo, 16: More young blood on the hands of the prohibitionists

Extend the timetable, widen the field; a "Two Horse Race" is not always a good thing!

Spooks: promoting the human face of recognition software

Bloggers for Chris redux

Protectionism of marriage

Shelter Chief Exec on Land Value Tax and Home Ownership

Revolutionary Liberalism: 2 - Reinventing the State

Dave's Uncreative Conservative Futurology

Devolution and Local Income Tax - Simon Jenkins in praise of Lib Dems

Repealing the People's Budget

So much for socialism, Daahling!

Revolutionary Liberalism: 1 - Leadership

Low tax Tories? Don't make me laugh!

For 'tis the sport to have the Telegraph hoist with its own petard...

Now there's time to become revolutionary liberals

If it's so bad, why not abolish the Council Tax, Eric?

Spare a thought for the poor APMs

Milton Friedman on Prohibition and Drugs

Free Burma!

Political Influences meme

Arguments for and against inheritance tax

Nick Clegg on Telegraph's list of 100 most influential figures on the "right"

General Erection

September 07

Test trackback

Discovering Trackbacks

Rock may be solvent but where's the money come from?

The state of learning: universities teach "three Rs"

Things I don't understand: chewing gum disposal

Tories to bite the hand that feeds them?

Catching Lambeth's Liars?

Come on Dave, get Gideon to tell us which taxes you'll cut...

Pimms - a gateway drug?

Tories, "green taxes" and the "poor"

Ten years; a life changing decision

Oops - standby for another Tory bloomer?

Alcohoodies: is "local-ism" the answer?

Coalition for the nation?

Putting the genie back in the bottle

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of fear of crime

Cameron makes case for all-elected second chamber; "Lady" Warsi

August 07

Finally! plain speaking on drugs and gangs in the MSM

Funeral arrangements for Brian Hodgson

Why I find this Tory crap abhorrent...

Landing slots, air taxes and BAA monopoly

Paying for education

We'd have enough prison places if we worked out who the real criminals are

Incentives to form mixed status neighbourhoods

Oh Polly, how right you are!

Born free?

DNA - did Lynne really say this?

Labour MP puts activists on alert for election

Death of a favourite wonk

How government policy killed Rhys Jones just as surely as any Croxteth "gangland" scrote.

Oxford deserves better than unholy alliance of naive council and rent-seeking landowners

Pete Doherty

The Times doesn't get PR

Alcohoodies: not all police are the same

A sad loss to Oxfordshire politics: Brian Hodgson

Candidate vetting

Listen carefully: I will say this only once. "Well done the Greens"

Whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man...

Inheritance tax: of course we should abolish it

City and Country: Response for James Graham

Ecto 3 Alpha

Cutting the Red-wood Tape

The source of all freedoms?

A wunch of bankers...

July 07

Neo-puritanism: one I predicted earlier

Barclays' new sugar daddies

Jenkins again: It doesn't take a genius to know the war on drugs has failed...

Pledge support for private prosecution on cash for honours?

Don't believe everything you read in the papers

Neo-puritanism: a Liberal opportunity

Cannabis proof: I was wrong, says Jock

Prohibition versus Liberalism

If everyone at Westminster jerked...

One I missed: Simon Jenkins on Land Value Tax

Sainsbury's: what do Qataris want with our supermarkets?

Creep, creep, creep

Creep, creep

Still homophobes too, quelle surprise!

Tory hypocrites on booze and bongs...

Housing, housing, housing? No, it's location, location, location that matters, Gordon!

More affordable housing? Not on our tax policies!

Cable and Campbell invoke the Wizard

Conservatives copulating in the street?

Telegraph's Land Tax posers

So much for "stewardship"

Bite the bullet, ban the booze

The biggest frauds go unpunished - and we are all victims

Conservatives and the BNP

Hutton's half-baked housing answers

If in doubt, ban it...or why Tories are not for libertarians

A journey through libertarian anarchism

Higher Education Market

The romance of port wine...

Smoking bans and Land Value Tax...

Statistically significant?

June 07

Tearing up the unwritten...

Blair's divine commission

Cable and Osborne and the politics of envy

Brother Tony's penance?

Council tax doubles...compared to what?

Lib Dem MPs greenest vs Cameron's limp withered green fig-leaf

Why can't the ASI espouse Adam Smith's policies?

Could the OFT deliver LVT?

At forty I've only ever known Tony Blair too

How Blair are you?

The ASBO Ball

Pass the bucket! Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, Campbell in "I'm a leader get me into there"

Stand up at the back! Speak up, boy!

From the mouths of babes...

That Brown Meme

Dr Cundum's friendly Aid

Hello everybody!

Joseph Rowntree knew what Ming should have said.

Churchill's "Tax Switch"

Amnesty or salvation?

Is that a yellow rosette on George Osborne?

Ile des Chiens 4min: Gare du Nord 70min

An intelligent idea?

United by a common tongue

Food miles and fruit pickers

Because pregnancy is not an illness

ASI behind the curve on rubbish...

Cameron furious over theft of Lib Dem proposal

New quango sets sights on failure?

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