Civilian Disarmament: Prelude to Tyranny
Here is an excellent historical exposition of civilian disarmament and the key role it has played in mass murder by William Norman Grigg, as well as some interesting quotes regarding the reasoning...
View ArticleThe Delhi Gang Rape Incident
On Sunday 16th December a man and a woman, having been out to see a film, boarded a bus home to an upcoming district of New Delhi. The bus was driven by Mukesh Singh, on board was his brother Ram...
View ArticleStatistically, guns don’t kill people
From the Guardian, of all places, and in the context of the Aurora shooting: The key facts are: • The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world – an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it...
View ArticleTraumatised Indian females want guns
After the Delhi rape case, in which 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh Pandey was brutally and mortally wounded, females in the Indian capital are keen to own firearms. According to the...
View ArticlePetition UKIP for Armed Self Defense
Ask UKIP to adopt a clear set of polices in favour of armed self-defence – Arm Britain
View ArticleDemand mediocre gun laws
Since the Newtown shootings I’ve been hearing a great deal, understandably, about murder and violent crime statistics. Richard compared UK and US homicide statistics and Michael looked at the media...
View ArticleSchadenfreude, Huhne and Justice
I’ve had a bit of a disagreement with several twitterers and FaceBook people over my views on Huhne’s potential custodial sentence. It seems that it’s pretty automatic for anyone convicted of...
View ArticlePoynton falling in love with it’s libertarian heart
I stopped by at Dick Puddlecote’s blog today, for no particular reason, and learned about two places I hadn’t heard of. Exhibition Road, here in London is a long street where pedestrians and motorists...
View ArticleIf you do not want to see the BNP vindicated…
If you do not want to see the BNP vindicated… – Natalie Solent
View ArticleHonest hardworking Muslims
Most Muslims are good, honest, hard-working, peaceful people. Some sections of the Koran tell you to treat non-believers those who don’t follow its rules as enemies – a small minority act on this and...
View ArticleVideo: Steve Davies’ History of Individualism
The civil war undermines and blasts apart political and spiritual authority, and a radical movement develops. By 1646 Richard Overton is imprisoned at Newgate from where he fires his Arrow Against All...
View ArticleNon-Aggression Principle and Children
Libertarianism is based on a principle that it is not OK for institutions to implement social programs using force (the non-aggression principle). Surely governments are a major source of force against...
View ArticleWhat is a “Just War”?
It seems the British government stands on the verge of yet another foreign military adventure and, as ever, it is accompanied by profuse proclamations of piety and moral imperative. So, I thought it...
View ArticleAudio: The Moral Case for Capitalism with Yaron Brook
Yesterday was a productive day for Libertarian Home topped off nicely with an evening lecture at the LSE by Dr Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute (hashtag #LSEcapitalism). As regular readers will...
View ArticleDavid Friedman on criminal law before police and public prosecutions
I came across this interesting article by David Friedman on the operation of the English criminal law in the period before police and public prosecutions. At this time there was almost no use of...
View ArticleFree lunches
Some of the folks on the left don't realize is that 'corporatism', is only possible once you've injected government into the economy.
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Politicians, Problems and Politics
Here’s a popular argument: Politicians nowadays are to a man non-entities, totally unable to capture the public’s imagination. To compensate for this they’re doing lots of trivial, silly things....
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Morals and Markets
There is, of course, more than one path that can lead us to a passion for liberty. The two most well-worn are the moral and the economic. Talk of the ‘spiritual’ and ‘materialism’ can obscure how...
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