Category: Articles
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Something Worse Than Covid This Way Comes
According to Dr. Sunita Gupta of Oxford University, 130 million people are at risk of starvation due to lockdowns. The UN states that between 42 and 66 million children […]
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Hey! Creature! Leave them Kids Alone!
It would seem that the spirit of John Knox is alive and well in modern Scotland. Though in fairness to our arguably most famous hirsute killjoy, when he wrote his […]
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Are We Better Off Without Doctors?
Are we better off without doctors? That’s a question I never expected to have to ask. But since we have had to endure the insanity of the last six months, […]
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Policy proposal: Reform of nonprofit finance
Nonprofit organisations and charities are an important part of civil society, and often help groups that would otherwise be ignored or forgotten. Supporting a nonprofit, whether by donating money or […]
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A Chilling Affront to Scots Law
The deadline for public submissions on the Scottish government’s new Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill is on Friday. The SNP, who introduced the bill, have tried to use […]
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The Irony of Marxist Class Consciousness
(Article first appeared on Mises web page here: https://mises.org/wire/irony-marxist-class-consciousness ) Let’s set the scene. You and I are at the local pub when we find ourselves thrust into a […]
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Leaving The Left
Why I left the modern Scottish left (and don’t worry, I’m not a right-winger nor a Tory nor a Unionist nor a member of the far right) As Dave Rubin […]
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We Need To Talk About “Education” – Deschooling Society
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” Thus spake Ivan Illich. Austrian (we owe them so much) Philosopher, polymath, and […]
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Why We Should Oppose Mandatory Face mask Laws
As summer is coming up and the number of deaths from Coronavirus are going down, you would honestly think that it will be time to grasp that breath […]
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Orwell’s Newspeak : The New Normal
The term “Orwellian” is a word thrown around like confetti these days. Often in hyperbolic terms but in most instances I think it’s justified. For those of you who never […]