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Socialists complain about jurisdictional competition as a “race to the bottom,” as more successful societies put pressure on the less-successful ones to lower taxes, relax irrational regulation, and...
View ArticleIt is not just the UK…
The UK has Brexit, an event that Perry, Adriana, Brian, I and the rest of the Samizdata conspirators would have only dreamed of when this publication was founded all those years ago. To say it would...
View ArticleThe pointlessness of the Anglosphere Right
Many of you will have read Fraser Nelson‘s article in the Spectator already, so in a somewhat similar vein… The refusal of Mr Cameron (and co) to talk in terms of limited government principles may have...
View ArticleThanks for letting us in on the joke, but why now?
This story has been quite widely reported in the British press: ‘Special relationship’ was seen as a joke by US diplomats, claims former Presidential adviser: Aide also admits slipping Malvinas...
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US Navy: Penis in sky drawn by jet trail was ‘unacceptable’
A display of ‘airmanship‘, the sort, but not the pattern, that was needed in Operation Taxable on D-Day, appears to have fallen on ‘stony ground’ as it were, it looks like a pilot will be having a hard...
View ArticleThe 20th century saw the state getting bigger and bigger, and thus the...
In NZ, the UK or Australia, one may own a rifle or shotgun, but it has to be locked in a cabinet when not in use. Thus, it is of no use for a sudden life or death situation. A twelve bore which is...
View ArticleMelvyn Bragg on England’s verbal twins
Whenever I learn of a book about the history of the English language, then provided the price is not too steep, I tend to buy it. Only this month, I bought another such book. Although short, as...
View ArticleDeath to English!
As part of my homework for this, I read, and have carried on reading since, a book by David Crystal entitled English as a Global Language. I’m enjoying it, and I especially enjoyed this (on page 90 of...
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Leaving the EU – a Jersey jaunt and a Guernsey gallivant
Rightly not trusting our leaders to deliver on their statements (there were, IFUC, no promises about leaving the EU from Mrs May), the Sage of Kettering and I have left the EU in that recently, we have...
View ArticleElections have consequences – and so does arranging that they don’t
There’s a Snoopy cartoon that starts with Linus telling Violet he is running away from home. “I know a joke about running away from home”, says Violet. “A boy at a street crossing tells a friend he is...
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Some things need to be remembered
I was walking down a London street today and came upon a reminder that the reason Donald Trump is visiting the UK is not entirely about current affairs. And whatever you think of him personally, it is...
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Dear Japanese Government: fuck off
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan aims to change the way Japanese names are written in English by putting the family name first, the same way they are written in Japanese, in a triumph for conservatives keen to...
View ArticleThe Anglosphere and our present discontents
Contemplating the riots/demonstrations of the weekend (statues defaced and pulled down, police officers assaulted, social distancing ignored, etc) I ask myself about the extraordinary power of events a...
View ArticleThe sad story of Scots Wikipedia
Hats off to the Guardian for the pun in this headline: Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia Nineteen-year-old says he is ‘devastated’ after being accused of cultural vandalism...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
When Samuel Paty was decapitated in the street in broad daylight for trying to teach his students a civics lesson, the New York Times ran with the woefully misleading headline “French Police Shoot and...
View ArticleNatWest hints at its own bankruptcy? Saying it might have to exit the stage...
The bank formerly known as RBS, now called NatWest Bank PLC, has announced that if Scotland votes to leave the UK, it will move to London Britain’s NatWest would move its headquarters out of Scotland...
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View ArticleYou were entirely in the tank, Jacinda
‘Jacinda Ardern has announced she will quit as New Zealand prime minister ahead of this year’s election, saying she no longer has “enough in the tank” to lead’, reports the BBC. ‘Ms Ardern choked up as...
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