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Vera Kichanova on micro-homes

Last night I attended a meeting, and although I did not have any arguments with anyone about fake news, I did meet with Vera Kichanova, and learned from her that her Adam Smith Institute “report” (aka:...

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Turning Point?

Turning Point UK is getting quite a lot of attention, and I think it deserves a little more, from any Samizdata readers who are hearing about it for the first time, now. Here is a recent Tweet of...

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True but not the point

“Police waste too much time over silly spats”, writes Clare Foges in the Times. (Paywalled, but I will quote all the bits that matter.) But perhaps the most time-sucking of new developments has been...

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Samizdata quote of the day

If socialists really wanted to help people they’d be capitalists. – Andy Puzder. Spotted by Stephen Green of Instapundit, to whom thanks.

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Samizdata quote of the day

And yet here’s the thing about that freedom. Why does, why should they, anyone need a licence from the government to export LNG? Note what this isn’t. It’s not a licence saying “and sure, your plant...

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The equal oppression of the laws

“… nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (14th amendment to the U.S. constitution) Americans, especially right-wing ones, object if laws that protect them...

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If you want Pride you must allow the cry of “Shame!”

The Daily Mail shows a video in which Muslim woman wearing a niqab shouts ‘shame on all of you despicable people’ in shocking homophobic rant at Pride march in London This is the shocking moment a...

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Samizdata quote of the day

“We didn’t always know it at the time, but Hong Kong has been a kind of bellwether for the state of freedom in the wider world.” – Tyler Cowen. He’s right, which is why, despite the mockers, I am...

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Perils of alternate history wargaming

A father and son duo run a YouTube channel about historical tabletop wargaming called “Imperator Vespasian”. They run through demo games, talk about making and painting models and so on. Recently they...

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No, slavery did not make America, or the West, richer

US economic historian Deidre McCloskey debunks the claims – which I see have been given fresh impetus by the New York Times recently – that since the very earliest days of the colonies, slavery has...

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We have always been at war with Vapasia

India bans e-cigarettes as global vaping backlash grows India has announced a ban on electronic cigarettes, as a backlash gathers pace worldwide about a technology promoted as less harmful than smoking...

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A suggested compromise for helping the Kurds

Should American soldiers be fighting on the side of the Kurds, against Turkey? Yes!!!? No!!!? (Instapundit ruminations here.) I suggest a compromise. All those Americans, and all those from anywhere,...

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Socialism is socialism until it turns nasty (because if it’s nasty it can’t...

Via Instapundit, a tweet: Rand Paul: “Well if you vote for a Socialist, you might get Socialism”. Ana Navarro: “Maduro is not a Socialist. He’s a corrupt, murderous thug who is starving his people.”...

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It is past time for a Hayek statue

I agree with this, from Matt Kilcoyne of the Adam Smith Institute. It is past time that Nobel Prize-winning economist and great social thinker, F A Hayek, had a statue in London. Hayek is one of the...

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The Anti-Saloon League is back

“Prohibition showed bans can be good for us”, writes David Aaronovitch in the Times. Unironically. He means it. He thinks Prohibition was good and wants it back. I suppose it was ever thus; it is like...

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What if the Berlin Wall hadn’t come down?

I have always been interested in the What If? question that consists of asking how the world would have been different had the Berlin Wall not fallen and had the USSR just blundered onwards...

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How to defeat the Chinese Communists

How can the HongKongers defeat the Chinese Communists (hereinafter termed ChiComs), and preserve their HongKonger way of life approximately as it now is? In the short run, they probably can’t. During...

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Samizdata quote of the day

I’ve always believed that libertarian ideology should be to a well-lived life what scales are to a symphony: essential to know but not the music itself. – Jeffrey A Tucker. I don’t know when Tucker...

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I hope so

Harry Miller: “This is a warershed moment for liberty” The police response to an ex-officer’s allegedly transphobic tweets was unlawful, the High Court has ruled. Harry Miller, from Lincolnshire, was...

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Why Jack Powell and 1828 are not wasting their time trying to influence the...

Tomorrow evening, I am hosting a talk at my home which will be given by Jack Powell. Here’s the short biographical note that Powell sent me, to send out to my email list of potential attenders: Jack...

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