From the Libertarian Alliance
Week Ending 1st June 2025
Dear All,
This week’s digest explores the boundaries of free speech, critiques economic policies, and examines the implications of technological advancements. Highlights include an in-depth analysis of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s political philosophy, a detailed account of Lucy Connolly’s controversial imprisonment, and a critical look at modern banking practices.
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Yours in Liberty,
Sean
Politics
🎙️ Ep 161: Is Hans Hoppe an Anarchist or a Monarchist?
Swithun Dobson digs into the political philosophy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, examining whether Hoppe’s critiques of democracy and favourable comparisons to monarchy imply monarchist leanings, or if they serve as a strategic critique within an anarcho-capitalist framework.
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🏛️ On Local Government Re-Organization in Surrey: Summary
This article provides an overview of the proposed structural changes to local government in Surrey, discussing the potential impacts on governance, efficiency, and local representation.
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🗣️ Lucy Connolly: The New Tune and Who Can’t Hear It
“The State Department is not “monitoring” Connolly’s case because it cares about her. It is doing so because the sentence has made Britain look ridiculous. A liberal democracy that jails women for speech is not a useful satellite. It is an embarrassment.”
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🌍 Britain’s Global Generosity
A critical examination of the UK’s foreign aid expenditures, questioning the effectiveness and motivations behind the country’s international financial commitments.
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🧠 Gen Z and the Horror of Knowing What’s Coming
“I don’t say this from a position of disgusted superiority—well, not only. I say it because I see them every day, walking grease-slicked and mouth-breathing into lessons they don’t understand, wondering why they feel permanently angry or dead inside. Their entire existence is one of hormonal chaos made worse by poisoned inputs—sugar, seed oils, the wrong sort of pornography, TikTok, “influencers” who look like deformed barbie dolls. The modern boy is a lab rat with free access to every lever. And he pulls all of them at once.”
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🇵🇸 Gaza: Case Study in Moral Bankruptcy
“This is not an argument, as some try to frame it, between those who want Israel to survive and those who want it destroyed. It is an argument between those who have a moral bearing and those who have none.”
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📝 Rejoinder to Kevin Duffy on War & Israel
“War simply consists of fighting on the part of thousands, maybe millions, of people. The initiation of violence, to be sure, is fully incompatible with the non-aggression principle (NAP) of our beloved philosophy, but whole-heartedly supports forcefulness in response. Support for defensive violence is by no means required of libertarianism; pacifism, too, is compatible with this doctrine, but it is by no means mandated.”
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Economics
🤖 The Robots Are Coming to Do the Jobs – And Thank God for That
“A robot does not need to sleep. It does not need subsidised housing. It does not complain of racism, organise strikes, or grope the strawberries. It costs money to build, yes—but it does not need a new visa every year. More importantly, the productivity it brings lowers the unit cost of every strawberry. It allows for more abundant production, at lower prices, with no additional burden on the welfare state or the criminal justice system. For all the talk of mass immigration “doing the jobs Brits won’t do,” the truth is that there is no job so essential that it cannot eventually be done by a machine.”
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🏦 A Rotten System: How Britain’s Banks Became Instruments of Theft
An exposé on the transformation of British banking institutions, analyzing how systemic changes have led to practices that the author argues are detrimental to consumers and the economy.
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💸 Paul Craig Roberts and the Gospel of Inflation: A Critique
“Inflation is not painless. It distorts every signal in a market economy. It reallocates wealth arbitrarily—from the poor to the asset-rich, from workers to speculators, from savers to debtors. It breaks the essential trust between citizen and state. In a healthy society, money is a reliable store of value. In Roberts’s vision, it is a disposable convenience—a number that can be adjusted to serve the needs of the regime.”
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History
The Year the Sun Forgot to Rise: Catastrophe and Collapse in 536 AD
“Modern scholars have dubbed this the “536 Event”—an innocuous name for what is now considered the most dramatic climatic downturn of the last two thousand years. What follows is an account of what likely happened, how we know, and what followed when the skies grew dark.”
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Science and Health
🩺 When Mercola Is Right: Medical Freedom and the Dangers of Health Authoritarianism
An exploration of Dr. Mercola’s controversial health perspectives, discussing the balance between medical freedom and the risks of misinformation in public health.
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💉 Doubt Without Proof: A Sceptical Look at the Century of Evidence – Vaccines
“In the end, this article fails not because it raises concerns—many of which are worth pursuing—but because it does not make a coherent case. It substitutes suspicion for evidence, correlation for causation, and indignation for analysis. It raises questions about polio, smallpox, and measles but does not offer a theory that explains what happened in their absence.”
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🧠 The Nasty Truth About Gordon Duff: AI Panic for the Soft-Skulled
“This is best described as a load of old toss. AI does not “watch your emotions.” It doesn’t “decide what to show you next.” It responds to your prompts. If it’s giving you nonsense, it’s either because you asked it badly or because the version you’re using has been hobbled by the usual suspects—lawyers, regulators, mid-level safety officers, various shades of activist trash. Use a better version. Use your own copy. Stop whining.”
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