Politics / Economics

Alan Bickley – The Budget that Cannot Yet Be Written
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/15/the-budget-that-cannot-yet-be-written/
Bickley opens with the bleak truth no politician will admit: the Government cannot produce a Budget because the numbers no longer add up. Spending has outrun national output; taxes have reached a breaking point; borrowing is exhausted. Push further, and the pound collapses, the Treasury panics, and the British State discovers the limits of coercion when its tax base starts to flee.

Sebastian Wang – Therapy Economics and the Death of Price Signals: Why Nigel Green Must Be Ignored
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/07/therapy-economics-and-the-death-of-price-signals-why-nigel-green-must-be-ignored/
Wang restates what the Treasury refuses to grasp: interest rates are not tools of social work but prices reflecting real time-preferences. Set them by decree, and the economy distorts. The Austrian view is not a theory but a record of repeated empirical failure when governments attempt to improve upon voluntary exchange.

Marian Halcombe – Britain’s Welfare Empire: A State that Feeds Strangers and Starves its Own
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/05/britains-welfare-empire-a-state-that-feeds-strangers-and-starves-its-own/
Halcombe dissects the Home Office’s own documentation to show how asylum applicants are guaranteed housing, cash, and support without delay or scrutiny, while British citizens face means tests, waiting periods, and suspicion. The ASPEN card, weekly allowances, and automatic provisioning reveal a system that treats foreigners as clients and taxpayers as expendable.

Marian Halcombe – Profit Before People
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/02/profit-before-people/
Responding to Ofgem’s decision to shift £500 million in unpaid bills onto paying households, Halcombe argues that energy suppliers have achieved the perfect inversion of enterprise: profits privatised, losses nationalised. The poor cannot pay; the companies refuse to absorb loss; the regulator forces the rest of us to make good the shortfall.

Neil Lock – What Should Be the Functions of Government?
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/10/31/what-should-be-the-functions-of-government/
Lock revisits Locke’s definition of “property,” showing how life, liberty, and estate form a single moral category under natural law. Penalties, even capital ones, arise because attacks on the person are attacks on property, broadly understood.

Swithun Dobson – Ep. 167: Time, Clock Changes, and Industrialisation
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/05/ep-167-time-clock-changes-and-industrialization/
Dobson explores the philosophical and historical roots of timekeeping: whether “time” as we understand it existed before industrial discipline, whether seasonal clock changes solve anything, and whether a decentralised or anarchic society would keep time as we do now.

Duncan Whitmore – Free Trade: Understanding the Economic Case
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/10/23/free-trade-understanding-the-economic-case/
Whitmore responds to a critique by Bryan Mercadente, clarifying where the principled case for free trade remains strong and why misinterpretations of that case persist.

Bryan Mercadente – Free Trade: Mercadente v. Whitmore — A Friendly Exchange
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/10/26/free-trade-mercadente-v-whitmore-a-friendly-exchange/
Mercadente replies in kind, arguing that their points of departure trace back to first principles, not facts, and that their areas of agreement remain considerable even where final conclusions differ.

Foreign Policy / War

Len D. Pozeram – World War III Has Already Begun — But You’re Not Supposed to Notice
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/14/world-war-iii-has-already-begun-but-youre-not-supposed-to-notice/
Pozeram contends that global conflict has already started, but modern conditioning prevents most people recognising it. War is now bureaucratic, financial, digital, and psychological—not trenches and mushroom clouds—and the public is lulled into complacency as the structures of their lives erode.

Religious Affairs

Sebastian Wang – The Reformation and its Ironies: How the First Protestants Were More Catholic than Many Catholics Today
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/13/the-reformation-and-its-ironies-how-the-first-protestants-were-more-catholic-than-many-catholics-today/
Wang shows that the early Reformers were not proto-modernists but conservative Catholic reformers. Their quarrel was with corruption, not doctrine, and their work looks more orthodox today than much that passes for mainstream belief.

Philosophy

Bryan Mercadente – Pierre Bayle: Sceptic, Critic, Heretic — The Philosopher Who Paved the Road for Hume
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/12/pierre-bayle-sceptic-critic-heretic-the-philosopher-who-paved-the-road-for-hume/
Mercadente offers a portrait of Bayle as the genuine sceptic of the early Enlightenment—too honest for sectarianism, too rigorous for metaphysics, and too empirical for tidy system-building.

Fernando Carpio – Rebuttal to a Refutation of Rothbardian and Hoppean Critiques of F. A. Hayek
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/11/rebuttal-to-a-refutation-of-rothbardian-and-hoppean-critiques-of-f-a-hayek-by-paul-villegas/
Carpio reviews the tension between praxeology and Hayekian modesty, arguing that Hayek’s evolutionary ethics abandon the individual’s right to refuse. He unifies Rothbard and Hoppe into a firmer philosophical framework.

Juan I. Núñez – Counterfeit Property? The Ethics and Contradictions of Intellectual Property
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/10/29/counterfeit-property-the-ethics-and-contradictions-of-intellectual-property/
Núñez traces the global expansion of IP law and questions whether rights over ideas can ever be coherent or just, especially given the enthusiasm with which even anti-property regimes embraced them.

Albert Esplugas Boter – The Monopoly of Ideas: Against Intellectual Property
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/09/the-monopoly-of-ideas-against-intellectual-property/
Esplugas Boter examines patents and copyrights as State-enforced monopolies over non-scarce goods, contrasting them with less problematic forms of commercial protection.

American Affairs
Len D. Pozeram – The Billionaire Judas Goat: Trump and the Carnival of Dupes
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/06/the-billionaire-judas-goat-trump-and-the-carnival-of-dupes/
Pozeram argues that the populist hopes of 2016 were betrayed not by the establishment alone, but by Trump himself—whose record is indistinguishable from the very forces he promised to confront.

Reviews

Bryan Mercadente – Curse of the Sin Eater (2023): A Thoughtful Exploration of Temptation and Responsibility
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/10/curse-of-the-sin-eater-2023-a-thoughtful-exploration-of-temptation-and-responsibility/
Mercadente reviews a film that avoids cheap horror in favour of a slow, unsettling meditation on moral weakness and the consequences of yielding to it.

Bryan Mercadente – Antinous: Drowned Twice — Once in the Nile, Again in Hausrath’s Novel
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/10/28/antinous-drowned-twice-once-in-the-nile-again-in-hausraths-novel/
Here Mercadente dissects a Victorianised retelling of Hadrian and Antinous, praising the history and condemning the timidity: a novel so sanitised it strangles the very story it claims to tell.

Health / Medicine

Sebastian Wang – Cholesterol and Catechism: A Conservative Reading of What They Don’t Tell Us About Heart Disease
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/08/cholesterol-and-catechism-a-conservative-reading-of-what-they-dont-tell-us-about-heart-disease/
Wang reviews the Midwestern Doctor’s claims on cholesterol and statins, separating valid criticism of medical orthodoxy from overstatement, with particular attention to the re-evaluated diet-heart trials.

Sebastian Wang – The Health and Morality of Coffee with Spices
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/11/04/the-health-and-morality-of-coffee-with-spices/
A short history of coffee in Europe, from Ottoman import to Enlightenment stimulant, and a reflection on the virtues of coffee blended with spices.

Sebastian Wang – The Great Alzheimer’s Trap: Why Science Stopped Looking for Real Answers
https://libertarianism.uk/2025/10/30/the-great-alzheimers-trap-why-science-stopped-looking-for-real-answers/
Wang examines the failures of amyloid-based research, arguing that the real problem is not a hidden cure but institutional capture: too much money, too many careers, and too little intellectual freedom.