I maintain that liberty is a British idea. My own favoured brand of libertarian philosophy – Objectivism – was made in America, by a Russian, but it grew from and explicitly endorses the thinking of the American revolution, the notion of individual rights that come from our enlightenment era. British values are objectivist values, or at least vaguely libertarian ones.

Meanwhile, this site – a home for people interested in bringing these ideas back to Britain and putting them into practice, is looking a bit drab. The Bavotasan theme is lovely. Clean, elegant and simple, but it needs some icon, some motif which makes a compelling case for the core concept: liberty in Britain.

America is proud of its Statue of Liberty, which is about as explicit in it’s endorsement of a concept as you could possibly get.

My question is, what icon or motif stands most clearly for liberty in Britain?