From the Libertarian Alliance
Week Ending 4th May 2025
Dear All,
Here is our latest digest of Libertarian Alliance activity. This week’s contributions include political reflections on the future of national identity, heated debate on race and religion, proposals for digital rights, and warnings about emerging surveillance structures. In addition, we have a range of historical and cultural pieces, as well as critical reviews of health trends and recent films.
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Yours in Liberty,
Sean
Politics
🌊 A Nation Renewed: The Voice of Youth
This is a fierce polemic by a young writer, contemptuous of all present constitutional arrangements. It argues that modern Britain—its institutions, its ruling class, and its moral tone—must be rejected in full. The author calls for a complete national reset, grounded in realism. It is both a personal and political declaration: angry and cold-eyed.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/30/a-nation-renewed-the-voice-of-youth/
⛪ Do We Need a Black Pope?
This article presents a debate between a traditional Catholic and a white nationalist, arguing about the proper function of the Roman Catholic Church.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/29/do-we-need-a-black-pope/
🔐 Comments on Together’s Draft Digital Bill of Rights
A close reading of the Together Declaration’s proposed Bill of Rights for the digital age. While welcoming its general principles, the article questions whether the document is sufficiently robust to prevent mission creep, legal ambiguity, or future circumvention by government and corporate actors.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/29/comments-on-togethers-draft-digital-bill-of-rights/
🔪 Sexuality and Crime: A Neo-Darwinian Perspective by Anthony Walsh
This review discusses Anthony Walsh’s work on the biological roots of violent and sexual crime. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, the article explains how behaviours linked to risk, aggression, and reproductive strategy might help explain patterns of criminality—and how this might inform future public policy.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/05/01/sexuality-and-crime-a-neo-darwinian-perspective-by-anthony-walsh/
🏛️ The Institute of Economic Affairs’ Vision for SECO: A Blueprint for Tyranny
This article critiques a recent policy proposal supported by the IEA, which promotes a centralised digital identity system known as SECO. The author argues that the proposal, if enacted, would grant enormous surveillance power to both the state and private interests, placing every transaction and communication under potential scrutiny.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/28/the-institute-of-economic-affairs-vision-for-seco-a-blueprint-for-tyranny/
History
🌐 Britain Through Chinese Eyes: Anglo-Chinese Relations Before the First Opium War
Wang outlines how British actions were seen by Chinese elites in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings, pride, and economic rivalry built up long before war broke out.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/19/britain-through-chinese-eyes-anglo-chinese-relations-before-the-first-opium-war/
🌍 Britain, China and the First Opium War: Trade, War, and the Roots of Modern Resentment
A sequel to the previous article, this one traces how trade disputes and diplomatic breakdowns led to open conflict. It connects the past to today’s tensions between China and the West.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/29/britain-china-and-the-first-opium-war-trade-war-and-the-roots-of-modern-resentment/
📰 The Daily Telegraph and the Yellow Peril
A scathing comment on recent coverage by the Telegraph, which revives racialised warnings about China. Wang argues that such rhetoric serves as emotional cover for failed domestic policy.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/30/the-daily-telegraph-and-the-yellow-peril/
Arts and Reviews
🎩 Honour and Mercy in Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
Sebastian Wang reviews Miike’s slow, reflective remake of the 1962 classic. He explores how the film celebrates personal dignity, and presents suicide not as honour but as protest against lies and cruelty.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/05/03/honour-and-mercy-in-takashi-miikes-hara-kiri-death-of-a-samurai-2011-a-review/
👸 Save My Seoul (2017): A Sanctimonious Snooze-Fest
Bryan Mercadente had high hopes for this film, expecting an inflammation of his amorous propensities. Instead, he found it dull and moralistic, with a tone that made no serious attempt to understand the social and economic complexities of prostitution in Korea.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/05/03/save-my-seoul-2017-a-sanctimonious-snooze-fest/
🍾 VFW: Gore, Neon, and Not Much Else
A review of a modern action-horror film that borrows heavily from 1980s aesthetics but fails to replicate the narrative discipline or energy of its predecessors.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/05/01/vfw-gore-neon-and-not-much-else/
Science and Health
🧼 Needles and the NHS: A Slim Chance of Salvation
A cruel essay on obesity and its medicalisation. Bryan Mercadente has been called a “narcissistic thug.” Plenty here for anyone who enjoys a nasty laugh. Or the piece questions the idea that medicine can replace discipline or reform.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/05/03/needles-and-the-nhs-a-slim-chance-of-salvation/
🌱 Empower Your Health: A Review of Life in the Fasting Lane
A positive review of a mainstream book on fasting, diet, and health. Though cautious about fads, the author sees this one as grounded in evidence and personal discipline.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/04/28/empower-your-health-a-review-of-life-in-the-fasting-lane/
🌌 Taurine, Longevity, and the Temptation of Medical Populism
Can one compound really extend your life? This article looks at taurine, the science behind it, and the hype surrounding it. It urges a measured view.
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/05/02/taurine-longevity-and-the-temptation-of-medical-populism/ |
