A space for political libertarians
This is our space to share our policy ideas and act to change the political landscape for the better.
The title of this post is inspired by Harold Prichard’s 1912 article (justly famous in its day) “was moral philosophy founded upon a mistake?” where Prichard attacks the founding principle of Classical moral philosophy that ethics is based upon our search for happiness, a happy life – an assumption that followers of Plato and Aristotle, the...
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It seems that Joey Jones is perhaps the most sensible (and liberal) member of the political-media elite today. You all know what he was talking about, but before watching the video of him, read what was actually said by Mr Gauke. Guido has the quote: Legitimate use of reliefs, for example taking out a...
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This trend for senior executives of scandalised firms to waive their bonuses is not a healthy development. It says to the mob that if you screech loud enough the rich will eat themselves. The targets of bullying and violent threats are sanctioning and legitimizing those threats. Hearing an aggressive tone they immediately hand over...
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Tax avoidance isn’t immoral – Longrider
A few months ago, Tom Burroughes gave an enlightening talk on intellectual property to the assembled Libertarian Home group at the Rose & Crown. If you have not seen that talk, it’s available with an introduction by Simon, here. Whilst Tom’s talk was certainly interesting and managed to catch me completely unaware of one...
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Yaron Brook will speak for IEA to argue that “to successfully stop the growth of the state, Americans will have to discover that laissez-faire capitalism is the only moral system – one that must be defended without guilt”. The talk will take place at IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1 on 19 June...
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President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred L Smith Jnr, will be delivering a talk for the IEA at 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1. He will passionately suggest “that an alliance of entrepreneurial capitalists and free market intellectuals is essential if liberty is to survive”. Quite so. The talk occurs on 12 July...
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On a train to Watford (at about Bushey) I overheard a conversation between an older grey haired gentleman and his female junior as they caught up on the issues of the day. They were discussing (fabourably) a colleague who was passionate about data and how it an be linked together to generate new conclusions....
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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former Labour MP Kitty Ussher projects her own ideas onto the British public: Of course nobody wants Britain to be a place where greed is celebrated, where rich people are deemed superior, where taxation is regressive and stupid financiers are let off the hook. That would be absurd....
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