Top 30 Libertarian Blogs

Inhalant Harboured Martyr / August 28 2010 6:12pm

The top two blogs on this list are not written by Libertarians, and have little to do with Libertarianism. Old Holborn and Guido Fawkes are both statists, not Libertarians, and so they should not be on this list at all.

The same goes for Big Brother Watch, which is not about Libertarianism at all, but about the Surveillance state.

This list is worthless as a guide to Libertarian blogs in the UK, as most of them have nothing to do with the philosophy of Libertarianism, which is something discreet, and not a grab bag or mish mash or general term for people who rant on their blogs.

If you want to discover what Libertarianism is, you need only read 'For a New Liberty' by Murray Rothbard. That book contains the sole definition of what it means to be a Libertarian.

Leg-iron / September 01 2010 2:49am

Thanks for the accolade but I don't live there any more. Underdogs Bite Upwards is now on Blogspot.

Lew - if you want to discover what libertarianism is, you really shouldn't be relying on someone's book of invented rules ;)

Pollee - grammar is important to me. Taste is not.

Kevin Boatang / September 03 2010 1:31pm

The top two are, as has been said, clearly not libertarian as anyone who has even a passing knowledge of politics knows.

Gore, as far as I am aware, classes herself as a Liberal.

@Lew - Rothbard is a known anarcho-capitalist on the very edges of what would be considered libertarianism, he is very very far from what you would define a 'normal', moderate libertarian to be.

Rambles / September 04 2010 7:35pm

@keven

"he is very very far from what you would define a 'normal', moderate libertarian to be."

Then again, nor are you.

Kevin Boatang / September 07 2010 4:27pm

@Rambles, Thanks. I don't want to be anything like the 'libertarians' that are taken as the norm in blogland.

Although I think you will find I am actually a moderate libertarian

Tom Paine / September 16 2010 7:30am

Perhaps we should stop arguing about whether people qualify for the title "libertarian" and get on with dealing with the authoritarians of left and right who are the real threat.

Perhaps Guido does not walk the walk, but it does us no harm that Britain's leading blogger aspires to be libertarian. Thousands of people are at least asking themselves what the word means because of him. How many purist bickerers can claim as much?

Freedom2Choose / October 05 2010 11:21pm

Hi, I am really pleased that our blog made it into the top thirty and I would like to thank all our lovely readers for voting for us. However the link you have above links to the Freedom2Choose website and not the F-2-C blog: http://freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com/ This is obviously an oversight.

With respect, TheBigYin.