Henry Hill is an Anglo-Irish dual national, Top 10 Conservative blogger and the winner of the 2011 ASI Young Writer on Liberty award. Beyond liberalism his somewhat political interests include psephology, royalism, unionism and foreign affairs.
Last time I posted here, I attacked Professor Les Ebdon’s plan to poison the well of British higher education by subjugating the admission criteria of our best universities to ‘progressive’ political priorities. ...
Blog - Tuesday 13 March 2012
If one phrase were needed to sum up all that is wrong with the choice of Les Ebdon as ‘Fair Access’ Czar of British universities, it must be this: ...
Blog - Wednesday 22 February 2012
The British Medical Association has called for the government to ban all smoking in cars. This follows a similar call from the Royal College of Physicians a few years ago. ...
Blog - Wednesday 15 February 2012
If you want to try to judge the shape of a proposed censorship regime, there are few better methods than observing the sort of people who are cheer-leading the scheme. Although of course all forms of censorship are anathema to libertarians, the exact ...
Blog - Monday 13 February 2012
Conspiracy theorists like their threats to be fundamentally phantom. After all, if you stake your pride and credibility on something that can be empirically tested, you risk being proved wrong and having to adjust your world view. This was certainly the ...
Blog - Friday 10 February 2012
Once, when I was on the radio during the autumn’s public sector trouble, a teacher representing the trade union activists who were due to go on strike at midnight that night countered one of my arguments by saying that he was striking for “people like me ...
Blog - Thursday 09 February 2012
Pretty much every university student must be at least passingly familiar with their student union. Although the quality of such establishments – and it is as establishments that they are most widely known on campus – varies enormously from place to place ...
Blog - Wednesday 08 February 2012
As the United Kingdom approaches its date with destiny and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the debate surrounding the possible shape of a post-Union Scotland are only going to get fiercer. What Scotland might look like outside the United ...
Blog - Tuesday 07 February 2012
On the whole, in what I consider to be a baffling divergence from best tenets of the ideology, most libertarians I have met support devolution and the right to secede. This fetish for the local mistakes group sovereignty for individual liberty, and can ...
Blog - Friday 16 September 2011
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Blog - Wednesday 14 September 2011
Trade unions are an interesting problem for libertarians. Although they are essentially anti-liberal forces, most attacks on trade unions historically stem from the authoritarian Right. Too often the conflict between unions and business leads to many ...
Blog - Monday 12 September 2011
