Where there is error, may we bring truth. - Margaret Thatcher, 1925 – 2013
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Strategy
Theory is one thing, but to build the free friendly and prosperous society we want we need to persuade everybody to leave everyone else alone. It sounds simple, but how do we persuade them to try it?
Saatchi did “very little” to enhance Margaret’s winning philosophy
Saatchi, who architected her election campaign, says he did very little to enhance her prospects; that what won elections was her philosophy.
Christmas or poultry?
Over on Samizdata a discussion about turkeys failing comprehensively to vote for Christmas. The turkey here being the BBC, and Christmas meaning austerity with regards to welfare payments. Nothing new here, but I liked this comment by Pat: why doesn’t the government propose that the license fee be diverted to benefits for the poor-...
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Corruption Tax
Glenn Reynolds has been making hay with a proposal to raise taxes on a rich elite: My proposal was to put a surtax — 50%, say, or maybe 75% — on the post-government earnings of federal officials in excess of their government salaries for the first five years: Leave a federal job paying $100,000...
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The policy free party
James Rigby shares an interesting strategic idea with upstart blogger The Libertarian: there should be no party policies or manifesto. I’ll say that again. There should be no party policies or manifesto. There can be principles – libertarian principles such as non-aggression, individual liberty and property rights, but that’s it. My view is that...
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But the NHS were trying…
I was impressed that the libertarian press was sticking the boot into the mainstream media, Labour and the NHS in an apparently co-ordinated effort today. The City AM editorial made the point nicely and Guido backed it. It is vital to ask why one story – Libor or horse meat – is getting more...
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Starbucks giving up
Unlike the plucky fighter pilot of the same name, Starbucks the corporate coffee giant has wilted and turned like Monty Python’s King Arthur. According to Channel 4: Given the week ahead, Starbucks may have been trying to pre-empt criticism by issuing a statement saying: “Starbucks has complied with all the tax laws in this...
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Replacing the single manifesto
Last night at the Pro Liberty Social I repeatedly promoted an idea I had a long time ago about how to handle policy decision making in a libertarian party. There was more interest in this there, than I remember the original article getting. It was a long and rambling tour of issues current at...
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Amateur PCC election number crunching
Since I blogged about the PCC election, I’ve been doing a little number crunching. This is frankly the first time I’ve looked in any detail at election results and my GCSE in Maths didn’t include any statistics beyond mean, mode and median, so take the theories and conclusions below with a pinch of salt...
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