Preamble of the Anarchist

Here are the rules of the game, when you do well there will always be someone to tell you it is worthless, when you fail there will always be someone to point and laugh. When you struggle on through there will always be someone to add to the burden, when you collapse there will always [...]

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So much for Anarchy

According to Yahoo Music news that great purveyor of fascinating truth and certainty, 60% of Radiohead fans paid bugger all to download their latest album ‘In Rainbows’
The idea of letting fans pay for a product or in a more general sense letting a customer pay what they think the product is worth is not new [...]

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Foxes and Freedom, how Liberty gets Hijacked

Its about time I made my feelings on foxhunting perfectly clear; its a contentious issue for sure and one that raises many heated arguments.
I live in a predominantly Tory, Countryside Alliance area and I have grown more than a little weary of the continued use of car bumper stickers protesting the injustice of the foxhunting [...]

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The Anti-Patriot

I’ve often ruffled feathers with my stance on Patriotism, I don’t see why it should ruffle feathers after all I’m not actively involved in sedition or anything in fact the very title of this post is completely fallacious in that I’m not an Anti-Patriot I’m just not a Patriot.
This is of course part of a [...]

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Coming off worst from the Vote

I had an experience which made me truly question Democracy, in the tearoom my colleague Keith came up with the premise of all Arabs being Bastards.
I challenged him by asking him why he thought that they were, his reply was ‘because they were’ again I asked him why and he said ‘because they were Arab [...]

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An actual post about current affairs

The media has a habit of latching onto a story and then only fixating itself upon stories which support its current crusade but nontheless for a story to be reported it generally has to have happened.
So we hear the story of the 11 year old Rhys who was shot in the back of the neck [...]

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The Nightwatchman state

In my attempts to reconcile my slightly Anarchic desires with the idea of state socialism I have come across an interesting and little discussed concept decribed in the title of this post.
The idea of Minarchism is one based around a form of deontological arguments which determine that a state should be restricted to minimal powers, [...]

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