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Conservatives usually make the tactical error of laughing at encroaching tyranny. It’s folly because laughter is a refusal to take something seriously — a giddy collective pushing-away of the unthreatening, the ignorable.

So to those stand-up comedians who say “it’s important that we can still laugh”: yeah, no.…[Read more]

Well said!

Hi Gladstone, I think snowflake has become one of those terms that has been expanded to mean whatever one wants.  I myself have fallen prey to using it to infer fragility, but I think its original usage as a mild epithet was to observe that someone feels they are special in the way that every snowflake is unique & special.  This derives from the m…[Read more]

Edward, some interesting points but I am not sure why dealing with free speech shouldn’t be debated here. And that was the central point. These attempts to shut down free speech are growing and the people doing have been called ‘snowflakes’. My argument is stop calling them that and call them what they are. Trying to belittle them, as you say, is wrong.

It’s sad that defending such a basic tenet of liberal democracy as free speech is being left to disagreeable right-wing old men. Not that I have anything against such people. But they’re always going to be perceived as the bad guys by rebellious, anti-nomian young people both collectivist and individualist.

Now, shaming the weakest of the enemies…[Read more]

Not all liberals are snowflakes. however many are. A liberal who might close down a conservative at a university – that’s a snowflake (and a bully who uses numbers (and violence) alternatively of discussion. I must add that if a conservative might close down a liberal, UK Essay Writer then you definitely have a conservative snowflake. )

Indeed. It is used to rehsape how we think. The problem is that the inconsiderate then claim they are being criticised by the politically correct when they are rude.

Right on – well said, and political correctness has nothing to do with being polite or considerate.

Interesting points about the Conservative party. The brilliance of the Conservative party, from its supporters point of view, is that it is a formidable electoral machine. Part of its success is that it adapts to what voters want. It is important to remember that the party was initially an alliance between Tories and Whigs. Burke is credited as…[Read more]

There are libertarian think tanks.

Dividing into two parties is a very bad idea in First Past the Poll elections. Better not to waste your vote on a party doomed to failure unless it’s much, much better.

It’s important to have a respectable opposition; information tends to flow downwards from the educated to the ignorant.[4] Since the left controls academia and press, the right…[Read more]

I can’t see Ukip ever becoming anything more than what it is/was: a protest movement against the EU and a home for nativist politics.

It would be great if there was a consistent liberal/libertarian voice in politics. Even if that party didn’t get elected, and frankly would it want power, it could help shape the agenda and force Statists to…[Read more]

Should we start one?

Hello,

As well as the think tanks mentioned, there is LibertarianHome (variable quality of posts and a mix of libertarian ideas, the UK Libertarian Party (which has had some problems and is a small organisation),  Conservatives for Liberty backed by Conservative peer Matt Ridley and Tory MEP Daniel Hannon and there is also Douglas Carswell.

It…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing, though I couldn’t get the link to work mate.

Thanks for sharing