Here is a selection of new articles from the Libertarian Alliance. As ever, there are many on politics and economics. But you will also find reviews of books and films.

Why do we publish reviews? The answer is that culture matters. Films and books show how people think. They show what sort of world we are being pushed into. They also help us understand what we are fighting for. You cannot defend civilisation if you never look at it. We have a long series coming up in which Bryan Mercadente and Sebastian Wang discuss aspects of ancient history – the impact of climate and disease, the biographies of the Emperors, ancient views of obesity. These are all relevant to where we are and to what needs to be done.

So here is what we have published in the past week. Please republish if you wish.

Yours in Liberty,

Sean 💸 The Government’s Latest Tax Raid: A Shakedown for the Insiders
“Let’s be clear about what this week’s news actually means. Every increase in National Insurance, every fiddled threshold in income tax, every surcharge slapped onto fuel or tobacco or flights is not about “the public good.” It’s about enriching people who already own everything. It’s about sustaining a bloated and unreformable state, and about funnelling more cash into corporations that are joined to that state like tapeworms in a colon.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/30/the-governments-latest-tax-raid-a-shakedown-for-the-insiders/

🎥 The Day of the Jackal – Review
“The thing is, multi-culturalism is not just restaffing the populace, but also the elite of Britain. Sky Atlantic may be trying too hard by showing the MI6 agent to be a black woman, but things are moving in that direction anyway. Agents for MI6 will find themselves increasingly working for ethnic bosses and female bosses, whose motivations and “values” are utterly different from those espoused by MI6 bosses in the 1950s. The British Deep State is becoming ethnic: why should Englishmen identify with it? No wonder large numbers of Englishmen now state they would not fight for Britain.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/28/the-day-of-the-jackal-review/

💼 Some Thoughts on Reform UK and the Rupert Lowe Affair
“Before Nigel Farage left UKIP to form the Brexit Party, the great majority of UKIP people who would later become Reformers were, first and foremost, patriots and/or nationalists. For many of these people, immigration, with the consequent dilution of national and cultural identity, was the most important political issue.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/25/some-thoughts-on-reform-uk-and-the-rupert-lowe-affair/

🔒 The Illiberal Nature of Limited Liability: A Libertarian Critique
“I will conclude by saying that, while actually existing capitalism is superior to all other economic systems that have so far existed, and is therefore to be preferred to these systems, limited liability is not a natural feature of a free market. It is a state-created privilege that fosters economic centralisation and promotes corporate socialism. A truly free market would not allow businesses to externalise their risks onto the rest of society. The solution is to abolish limited liability and restore full responsibility to business owners, as would be the case in a truly libertarian order.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/22/the-illiberal-nature-of-limited-liability-a-libertarian-critique/

🌎 GDP and How the British Ruling Class is Playing with Fire
“Western conservatives and libertarians often attribute China’s rise purely to market liberalisation. This is an incomplete explanation by itself. If the reforms of Deng Xiaoping were a necessary cause, but they were not the only reason for China’s rise. There are longer term causes to be taken into account.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/22/gdp-and-how-the-british-ruling-class-is-playing-with-fire/

🔗 Kevin Carson: A Friendly Critique of His Defence of Open Borders
“What Carson fails to address is that immigration policy today is not about allowing individuals to move freely in a stateless world. It is about governments, NGOs, and multinational corporations using migration as a tool to weaken existing social structures, drive down wages, and create a permanent underclass that is dependent on state welfare and corporate employment. Far from an act of liberation, mass migration in its current form is a mechanism of control.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/18/kevin-carson-a-friendly-critique-of-his-defence-of-open-borders/

💄 Your Duty to Be Beautiful
“The rejection of beauty is not an act of independence but of submission. It is not defiance of the System, but abasement before it. Just as in Old China, the inferior showed their inferiority by making themselves ugly, so in Modern Britain, the willing slaves of the order imposed on us show their own insignificance with every unkempt hair, every excess pound of flesh, every ill-fitting and slovenly garment they wear. They are the perfect subjects of a corrupt and manipulative elite—because only the ugly and weak-willed can be convinced to embrace their own degradation.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/23/your-duty-to-be-beautiful/

📚 Review of The Need for Nations by Roger Scruton
A short book with a big idea: nations matter. This review looks at what Scruton says about loyalty, culture, and why the globalist dream is a danger to real community.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/29/review-of-the-need-for-nations-by-roger-scruton/

👮️ Free Men in Slave States: Liberty and Power in the Ancient World
“To summarise: no ancient society was libertarian. But some ancient men were. They lived in polities that demanded conformity, extracted tribute, and treated vast numbers as expendable. Yet from within those societies emerged voices of dissent—philosophers who rejected domination, politicians who stood against tyranny, and cities like Athens that, however flawed, gave real scope for liberty.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/29/free-men-in-slave-states-liberty-and-power-in-the-ancient-world/

🎬 Blood and Money (2020): A Dreary Trudge Through Snow and Nonsense
“A better film would have treated the discovery of stolen money as the beginning of a different challenge. The real threat would not be the criminals hunting Jim in the woods, but the labyrinth of regulations and bureaucratic traps preventing him from ever using his new wealth. Instead of watching a geriatric who makes Dr Gabb look young stumble through the snow, we could have had a protagonist who understood this challenge: turning stolen money into useful money. There could have been careful structuring of deposits to avoid triggering bank scrutiny. There could have been shell companies, even classic smurfing techniques. Instead, Jim does none of this. He simply dies, leaving a bag of useless paper for an equally useless and random heir, as if the thought of cash is enough to make us believe in his victory.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/28/blood-and-money-2020-a-dreary-trudge-through-snow-and-nonsense/

🕊️ Review of Rotting from the Head: Radical Progressive Activism and the Church of England
How did the Church become a joke? This book shows how a small group of activists took it over, and how they used guilt and jargon to push out belief.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/27/review-of-rotting-from-the-head-radical-progressive-activism-and-the-church-of-england/

🛡️ Foreign Devils: Fear, Admiration, and the Future of Civilisation
“The story of the foreign devil, then, is not simply one of fear or conflict—it is one of transformation. English liberalism, with its emphasis on individual freedoms and economic opportunity, inspired movements that transcended borders. The British Empire demonstrated how power could be used to bring disparate parts of the world into a shared system of development and exchange. It showed how progress, once concentrated in a single nation, could radiate outward, lifting all others taken into its magnetic pull.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/27/foreign-devils-fear-admiration-and-the-future-of-civilisation/

📖 Review of Against Intellectual Property by N. Stephan Kinsella
“Copyright and patents, he argues, create artificial scarcity where none actually exists. They allow people to claim ownership over ideas and patterns, which means they can control what others do with their own property. If I own a printing press and some blank paper, I should be able to print whatever I like on it—including a copy of your book. But copyright says I can’t. Why? Because the government has given you the exclusive right to control that idea.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/25/review-of-against-intellectual-property-by-n-stephan-kinsella/

💰 A Five Per Cent Tax to Save British Drama? Burn It All Down
A new plan wants to take five per cent of your phone bill to fund TV drama. This article says what many think: enough is enough. Let bad art die.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/25/a-five-per-cent-tax-to-save-british-drama-burn-it-all-down/

🦠 Covid Origins
Where did Covid come from? This short piece says the answer is now clear, even if no one in charge wants to say it.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/24/covid-origins/

🌾 Why Vegetable Oils Are Slowly Killing You: A Review of Dark Calories
What if the real health threat is not meat or fat, but seed oils? This review looks at a book that makes that case in clear and worrying terms.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/24/why-vegetable-oils-are-slowly-killing-you-a-review-of-dark-calories/

🌊 Planet Aqua: A Deluge of Nonsense
“The book is packed with the sort of nonsensical verbiage that has made Rifkin a darling of bureaucrats and business leaders who enjoy nodding sagely while understanding nothing. He proposes “omnipresent distributed water internets” and “ephemeral pop-up 3D printed communities,” as if these phrases mean anything beyond a desperate attempt to sound innovative. He demands the demolition of dams, the abandonment of traditional farming, and—inevitably—the granting of legal rights to rivers, so they too can sue us for crimes against water.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/20/planet-aqua-a-deluge-of-nonsense/
🔢 Thoughts on the Latin Case Endings

“Language learning is shaped by tradition, and traditions persist when they work. The nominative-genitive-dative-accusative-ablative order might make sense to scholars who prioritise theoretical clarity, but the English order is practical, effective, and deeply ingrained. The Romans never set an official order, and medieval grammarians muddled through with different systems. Yet, for actual students of Latin, the English arrangement remains the best. It groups similar endings together, reflects real Latin usage, and follows a pattern that has served generations of learners well. If it was good enough for Kennedy, it’s good enough for me.”
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/03/19/thoughts-on-the-latin-case-endings/

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