Barbed Logic
Bill Malcolm has grown potatoes, onions, asparagus and other veggies in his garden in Marlbrook, Worcestershire, for eight years. Unfortunately, in the past four months he has been burgled three times....
View ArticleThe Idiotic Extremes of Prohibitionist Tyranny
Tyrants don’t like an armed populace. The extent tyrannies will go to make sure citizens are disarmed can boggle the mind. Take England. Please. In Great Britain, private gun ownership is now illegal....
View ArticleDevastating Regard for Gender
This just in: Cutting back on runaway government spending may be sexist. In Britain, the government has an austerity plan. Yup, the very opposite approach from America’s Spend-a-lot Administration. But...
View ArticleSir Terry Confesses to Forge-ry
Recently, two dreams came true for comic fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett. Yet, the final result was comic reality . . . Great Britain-style. First dream? He was knighted by the Queen. Second? He...
View ArticleA Fairy Tale Day
Aren’t weddings fun? And romantic, don’t forget. That’s why I’m excited about the wedding of two young people I don’t even know: Gladys Smith and Fred Klinkle. Yet, you won’t see their wedding on your...
View ArticleFor the Birds
Thanks to the intrepid action of swift-footed (and even swifter-brained) British bobbies in High Harrington, Cumbria, a dastardly mother-daughter duo was arrested and taken off the streets for several...
View ArticleCrime’s Up, Crime’s Down
Perception isn’t the same as reality. Americans often perceive, for instance, that crime is increasing. But the truth is that crime has been on the decline for decades. Can’t say that about crime in...
View ArticleIs Pregnancy a Lifestyle Disease?
Two stories courtesy of Reason’s Hit and Run startled me into thinking about the strange issues that come up when you put government in charge. Peter Suderman covered another Supreme Court review of...
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Acting Accordingly
Last week, the British Parliament declined to support Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for joining a military action against Syria — an effort to punish the regime for its alleged use of chemical...
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Progress in Talk About Schools
Since my days in the early grades of school, there’s been a lot of educational progress in America. Not so much in the public schools, but in alternatives to them. When I was young, public schools were...
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The Uber Rebellion
Customers in Germany and elsewhere have flouted irrational attacks on the popular ride-sharing service Uber. As I have explained before, Uber’s software lets passengers and drivers connect in a way...
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Will Brits Outlaw Speech?
Actually, the proposal is not to outlaw speech. Just some speech. Which? “Extreme.” That is, speech that conveys ideas too fundamentally orthogonal to authorized ideas, or that too brusquely nettles...
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It’s a Disgrace
State-powered Puritanism is alive and well in the west. And freedom of speech is in its death throes. Or so it seems in Great Britain. And the U.S. isn’t far behind, suggests Brendan O’Neill. O’Neill,...
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Another Push for Censorship
It’s almost as if politicians are hell-bent on expanding government at the expense of our freedoms . . . and grandstanding to ‘look like they are doing something.’ The two proclivities are not...
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Porn, Video Games and British Crime
British freedom is eroding. The attack comes from two directions. First, there is the over-bearing police-state style, surveillance-everywhere government. Second, there is the increasing violence....
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Upside Down and Inside Out
A YouGov poll of British voters asking who should lead Parliament, conducted a week after Britain’s European Union Parliamentary elections and in advance of Prime Minister Theresa May’s June 7...
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