Tag Archives: libertarians

Coronavirus diary: the Freeloader Problem

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Miles King

It’s Magic Monday, or Happy Monday or whatever new slogan has been dreamt up by Dom Cummings and his Vote Leave team in Downing Street to distract us. How quickly things change. Just last December Cummings and his libertarian band … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus diary: Libertarians, Pandemics and Populism

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Miles King

I had a bit of a cough yesterday. My wife and younger daughter had been ill the previous week with a typical winter bug. Was I fighting it off, or was it the beginnings of the dreaded coronavirus-19? Many thoughts … Continue reading →

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Ecomodernists split over links with neoliberals and libertarians

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Miles King

Ecomodernist Mark Lynas was rather rueful in his Guardian article yesterday, where he openly regretted having agreed to speak at Owen Paterson’s UK2020 “thinktank”, alongside ecovandal Paterson and his libertarian brother in law “rational optimist” Viscount Matt Ridley. He described … Continue reading →

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A political blog: the unholy alliance between UKIP and the Marxist Libertarians

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Miles King

the cheeky chappy   Last week I forced myself to watch a Channel 4 documentary “Nigel Farage: who are you?”, made by self-styled “fashionable left-wing film-maker turned wicked libertarian” Martin Durkin. He has previously made such edifying and entertaining pieces … Continue reading →

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