Quick links and upcomming events 22 Mar 11

A good video at PJTV featuring Glenn Reynolds interviewing author and former Reason editor Virginia Postrel,


Moonbat makes sense shock!,

Dominic Lawson in the Indy sets out how public spending cuts are being blown out of all proportion. I especially liked this bit:

'government spending totalled £343bn in 1999-2000, which, if it had just kept pace with inflation, would have reached £438bn by 2009-2010. In reality, spending in that year reached £669bn, an increase, in real terms, of 53 per cent, over a 10- year period in which GDP had grown by less than 17 per cent. When you factor in how much of that GDP increase was the result of unprecedented levels of private debt then the truly unsustainable nature of the public spending becomes vividly apparent'

Mark Wallace sets out the Libertarian case for intervention in Libya, and a counter argument by Sean Gabb (I'm probably in a minority in that I agree with Mark rather than Sean, indeed foreign policy is the main reason I prefer to call myself a Classical Liberal rather than a Libertarian )

And finally, some events that may be of interest, the ASI's annual Blogger Bash takes place on 21st Of April, plus next week they are hosting a debate on AV. This Thursday the Freedom Association is having a debate on the ECHR.

And then there is the TUC's anti cuts rally this Saturday. After discussing it with the Metropolitan police we felt having a counter protest would be a bit hazardous, what with us being able to field (optimistically) 20 people against 50,000+ socialists in a bad mood.

What we might do is a 'guerrilla' event, just going along and causally giving out flyers with our point of view to members of the public. If anyone is interested in doing this give me a yell .