What is a nation?
In the modern political tradition, patriotism has always been revered. Not only is pride in and devotion to country seen as a positive, but its absence is also often taken as a sign of moral deficiency. Nationalism, on the other hand, is more suspect. The nationalist identifies with the nation and nationalism can manifest as a political ideology, as it did [...]
Rules and Laws: similar but not the same
An unintelligent but often heard objection to libertarianism is that in a world without a state, people would not know what side of the road to drive on. The argument confuses [...]
Calexit and socialist hypocrisy
After Brexit, Calexit. The idea of secession from the USA is gaining popularity amongst disgruntled Californian liberals, upset to – or often beyond – the point of tears [...]
Trump is right to abandon the TPP – we need real free trade
The first concrete policy announcement form the incoming Trump administration has been the pledge to withdraw the USA from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade [...]
When are we going to stop borrowing?
Today the UK Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, is giving his Autumn Statement, but already yesterday figures for the state’s borrowing for the month of October was released, and [...]
Communists sense limitations of industrial strategies; May doesn’t
Social and economic development in China is currently guided by the 13th Five-Year Plan, the guidelines issued by the Communist Party to shape the future of the world’s 2nd [...]
Who lost the US presidential election?
For many on the right, whether of the libertarian or more traditional conservative persuasion, last week’s US election was a satisfying experience. Seeing the liberal media [...]
Wake-up call to the SJW crowd
Brexit and President Trump within a few months of each other! 2016 will go down as a bad year for the politically correct, leftie luvvies who for too long have believed they [...]
America’s Brexit moment
For all his flaws, Donald Trump will be a better president of the USA than Hillary Clinton would have been. This is not only because his policy platform features lower, not [...]
Time for the survivalist kit: Global imbalances herald the coming recession
Listening to the mainstream media in the autumn of 2016, it seems that only two things could put a spanner in the works of the slow, but steady central bank engineered [...]
The long overdue demise of the unions
There was a time when being a unionist was meaningful. Back in the early 19th century, the industrial revolution bestowed amazing growth on the world, but conditions for [...]