A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/transport-for-london-has-named-londons-overground-lines/
‘Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.’ -Mayer Rothschild If you asked the man or woman on the street whether they think we should have a ‘nati...
A Washington, D.C. jury has found that conservative writers Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg defamed climate scientist Michael Mann. The jury deliberated for close to a full day before reaching its ...
The reason Beijing seems so relaxed about the crisis is obvious: this is a situation in which China wins either way. Either the threat continues but shipping is safer for Chinese vessels than for...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-either-way-china-wins/
In any case, if those who stubbornly insist the Supreme Court is exactly like the old Appellate Committee are correct, then there can be no objection to moving it back to the House of Lords since...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-bring-back-the-law-lords/
There have been numerous foiled attacks on politicians, too. Just weeks after the Westminster Bridge horror, Khalid Ali, a Taliban bombmaker, was tackled by armed police near Downing Street. He w...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/02/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-wheres-the-anger/
Donald Tusk sends riot police to purge media of critical journalists – and suddenly the EU has nothing to say about the ‘Rule of Law’ – Will Jones
The advantages over cash are, then, as clear as day. The pesky thing about cash is that it isn’t regulated. If you want to buy something in cash, you just hand it over to the person who is sel...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-the-digital-pound/
While the desire on the part of modern conservatives to divorce themselves from ‘neoliberalism’ is understandable enough, the simple truth is that there is a very good and obvious reason why ...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-the-scorpion-state/
A useful perspective for people who just read headlines.
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/why-the-ukraine-war-is-not-actually-a-stalemate/
If you want to understand how the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – and how the legal system then made it so ...
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/understanding-the-post-office-scandal/
Why we can’t leave the Houthi’s to shoot at us in peace is completely beyond me. – the indispensable Zarah Bukake MP echoing nice Mr. Corbyn.
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/01/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-sage-geopolitical-wisdom-edition/