“Covid censorship proved to be deadly”
“Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly”, writes Bret Swanson in the Wall Street Journal, but you could leave the first word off the headline and it would still be true. It is not necessary to agree with...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the West and China share the same fate
It was managerialism that emerged as the true winner of the 20th century’s ideological battles. As Orwell prophesied in 1945: “Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now...
View ArticleWe answer, you reply, they skew
“Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow.” To the Guardian’s Steven Morris, responding to a government consultation is another of those famous irregular verbs that changes its form according to who...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the single greatest threat to free speech in Europe
“The #DSA (Digital Services Act) is here to protect free speech against arbitrary decisions.” So said Thierry Breton, EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, in a recent tweet. Given the extraordinary level...
View ArticleI never expected an honest lockdown reckoning
“Since apologies are now required. Challenging any consensus is fundamentally important to good science – especially that of an unproven intervention such as lockdown. The onus should have been on...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Why Ayaan is now a Christian
At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they...
View ArticleTen years ago, Brian Mickelthwait predicted the response to Covid-19
Ten years and ten days ago, the sadly missed Brian Micklethwait wrote this: “What if there is a real collective disaster?” Brian quoted this article by Paul Murphy which said that the response of...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – are liberal conservatives sleeping with the enemy?
Tony Blair is a political virtuoso, whatever one thinks of his policies or ideas, and he stated the position very clearly. The 21st century is not a battle between capitalism and socialism. It is one...
View Article‘¡Afuera!’– Presidente-elegido Milei on the Pope, the murderous Castros and...
Probably the most important man of the 21st Century, if only for his potential to do good, Argentine President-elect (as I write) Javier Milei sat down with Tucker Carlson for an interview, (excerpt...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the Scorpion State
While the desire on the part of modern conservatives to divorce themselves from ‘neoliberalism’ is understandable enough, the simple truth is that there is a very good and obvious reason why parties on...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the ‘consensus’ must be overturned
I would like to think that the cozy post war socialist consensus is coming to a long overdue end. We defeated the divine right of kings, now we have to do the same to the divine right of bureaucrats. –...
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