Rand, IP and being charitable
Mr Civil Libertarian has a long post up about his objections to Ayn Rand. Your humble Devil does not count himself as an Objectivist (although I think that the nightmare society that she posits in both The Fountainhead and especially Atlas Shrugged is gradually becoming a reality), but I felt that I should comment on what I saw as... not misconceptions, exactly, but oversights.Re: the charity thing. Richard North raised a similar concern on the EU Referendum

Eurosceptic: my fucking arsehole
As EU Referendum helpfully points out, a number of MSM commenters—including Benedict "Benny" Brogan, Danny "The Fink" Finkelstein1 and Matthew "Fat Tit" D'Ancona2—have all proclaimed Dave's new strategy as a pragmatic and achievable Eurosceptic policy.Pragmatic and achievable hi

Privatise the railways
Constantly Furious is absolutely fucking raging about the fact that many people were prevented from getting to Remembrance Services because First Capital Connect's drivers decided not to turn up for work this Sunday in "a dispute over pay".The Unions are really starting to flex their muscles at the moment, and we are being reminded just what a bunch of cunts they are. Of course, people like myself couldn't give a shit about Royal Mail staff str

Gordon and Darling: insane bastards
The BBC—even the BBC—is reporting that the latest stupid idea from Brown and Darling has received a "lukewarm reaction".Prime Minister Gordon Brown's idea of a financial transactions tax has received a lukewarm response from G20 countries.The proposal, which took delegates by surprise at the meeting in St Andrew's overshadowed other items on the agenda.Naturally. Gordon's idea of being "statemanlike" is just throwing in ideas that are not on the agenda. This one-eyed Scots idiot seems to equate lobbing in stuff that no one has prepared for to being "radical"

Votes at 16
I can't find a link for this (please put one in the comments), but I heard on the radio a couple of days ago that Gordon Brown had re-affirmed his belief that people should be allowed to vote at 16. This is presumably because Gordon believes that teenagers, being generally ignorant, would be more likely to vote for a socialist party.Or perhaps Gordon genuinely thinks that a sixteen year old is, in fact, adult enough to understand the issues. The trouble is that this government has, in fact, removed more and more rights from this group, as The Heresiarch eloquently amplifies.But in othe