Excellent News

The BBC are reporting here, that the dispicable Peter Hain was resigned from the Cabinet “in order to clear my name” after the Metropolitan Police started to investigate his deputy leadership donations.
Considering that Hain has already admitted that he broke the law, I am not sure how he thinks he can clear his name.
I hope [...]

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The Moral Maze

Via Freeborn John, the thoughts of Walter Williams.
Let us begin with a discussion of a working definition of markets. Markets are simply millions upon millions, internationally billions upon billions, of individual decision-makers, engaged in the pursuit of what they determine to be their best interests. We say that the market is free if it is [...]

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Peter Hain

I’ve been following the misadventures of Peter Hain recently. It would be difficult not too, Hain is making himself look a right prat.
But what has he actually done.
Well, for a start he has broken the law. The labour party got into power in 1997 partly by commenting on conservative sleaze and so after gaining power [...]

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Canada bans free speach!

Canada is trying to ban free speach.
Ezra Levant published the “Mohammed cartoons” in the Western Standard about two years ago. Somebody complained and Mr Levant has appeared before an Alberta ‘human rights officer’ to explain himself. For more on this story go here.
In any decent society, not only would the job of ‘human rights officer’ [...]

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Man having sex with horse is popular

Apparently the most popular article ever to be published in the Seattle Times is about a man having sex with a horse.
Virtual Economics has more on the publics interest in bestiality here. 

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Who to vote for?

Via Amused Cynicism, heres a nifty little quiz about the American presidential candidates.
Heres my results.
76% Mitt Romney
75% Ron Paul
73% Fred Thompson
67% John McCain
65% Mike Huckabee
58% Tom Tancredo
50% Rudy Giuliani
46% Bill Richardson
38% Chris Dodd
37% Mike Gravel
34% Barack Obama
33% Hillary Clinton
32% Dennis Kucinich
31% John Edwards
25% Joe Biden

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

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Funding Education

In my previous post I detailed how the state education sector was clearly failing and how this could be addressed with the use of vouchers.
But how much would all this cost?
Well, firstly, lets assume we do introduce education vouchers.
Secondly, that the vouchers are worth £4000 per pupil to age 18 and £10,000 per uni student.
There [...]

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State education failing again

The Telegraph has an interesting story here.
It is clear that the state education sector is failing, but why is this? The education budget is about £70bn a year so money isn’t the problem.
Perhaps it’s a lack of discipline. After all, the gov’t have deliberately made it difficult for head teachers to expel badly behaved pupils [...]

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More thoughts on gov’t spending

I’ve been reading up on a gov’t department called the Department For International Development (DFID).
The DFID has a budget of about £5,259,000,000 of which about £5bn is spent on aid and the rest (£259mn) administration.
About half of this aid goes from the UK direct to the recipient country which is called bilateral aid. [...]

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How to save the taxpayer some money

Many people think that taxes are far too high in this country, I’m one of them. So I’ve complied a list which has no impact on what a lot of people consider essential or necessary. In other words this is a list of totally nonessential things that the state does but clearly has no [...]

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A new political party

Do you feel dishearted by politics in the UK.
The Devil’s Kitchen has news of the launch of the UK Libertarian Party.
If, like me, you are fed up with massive taxes, loads of gov’t waste, endless spin and lies, a massive state apparatus to spy on and coerse and control individuals then you may well want [...]

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