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Opposition to vaccine mandates is part of a larger fight for freedom

Freedom used to be a universally held value. From John Locke to Martin Luther King, from the French Revolution and the American War of Independence to the [...]

The left’s hypocritical silence over Trudeau

Throughout the last two years is has been both fascinating and horrifying to see how quickly supposedly free people have been stripped of their rights in the [...]

The attack on comedy is no joke

Being funny is difficult but laughing is easy. Or at least, it used to be. These days, you better beware what jokes you find funny. A Scottish politician [...]

Rain Dance

To much fanfare, the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 26th such summit, is taking place in Glasgow, attracting world leaders and [...]

How (not) to lower energy prices

Energy costs are skyrocketing. The UK wholesale energy market has reached record highs with international gas prices surging as depleted reserves meet [...]

Immanuel Kant: libertarian?

Immanuel Kant is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Born in Königsberg, Germany, in 1724, at the advent of the Age of [...]

What is conservatism?

In most Western countries, the modern political divide nominally pitches left leaning social democrats against conservatives on the centre-right. But take a [...]

Inflation in the era of QE: still a monetary phenomenon

When global central banks responded to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) with Quantitative Easing (QE), many economists, not least Austrians, foresaw a wave [...]

The age of big-government Conservatives

It is a development that has been under way for some time: the traditional left/right political divide is no more. A poll this week shows how a supposedly [...]

Covid, lockdown and the Nuremberg Defence

Between 1945 and 1949, Nuremberg, in the German state of Bavaria, was the scene of a series of military tribunals, carried out to prosecute Nazi war criminals [...]