Author Archives: Ozboy

One More Five-Ring Circus

The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching.

Posted in UK | 120 Comments

More Of The Shiny Stuff

A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week.

Posted in Libertarianism, United States of America | 29 Comments

Meet The Asylum’s New Management

The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading

Posted in Australia | 24 Comments

Gunwalker – What The Hell???

I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading

Posted in United States of America | 24 Comments

Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp

G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading

Posted in Daily Telegraph Blog Disaster | 66 Comments

Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – What Goes Around…

Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament.

Posted in Australia | 18 Comments

A Mixed Legacy

Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. – Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Continue reading

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Liberty, Faith And Reason

Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual.

Posted in Libertarianism, Religion | 22 Comments

A Democrat You Could Vote For

Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of.

Posted in United States of America | 21 Comments

Reliving Mankind’s Finest Hour

I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen.

Posted in United States of America | 14 Comments