Barry Lyndon

Security firm G4S's failure to honor its Olympics contract shows just how silly and deficient crony-capitalism really is. G4S were originally drafted by the government to provide security personnel on $444 million-worth of a contract, 10 times…

Kevin Flanagan is the founder of Tir Na Saor (Land of the Free), an Irish website and social network devoted to the Liberty movement in Ireland. It is particularly interested in the subject of law, money and debt, spirituality and reinvigorating…

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."  "A man should be upright, not be kept upright." "That which is…

With the Dark Knight Rises and the Amazing Spider-Man around the corner, it's worth going back to where the whole idea of the summer blockbuster all came from: one movie by a 26 year old called Steven Spielberg. About a shark. Jaws has been…

In the wake of Texas Congressman Ron Paul's Goldwater-esque run for the presidency, many groups around the world have coalesced online with a single goal: to defeat the establishment. It's true, there is always going to be a certain degree of irony…

The EU has never been good for anything really, but I always thought I could count on them to put out decent propaganda. Now I'm not so sure.  Yes, the European Commission may be vacuous, parasitic, and autocratic. It may control everything from…

Whenever the subject of capitalism comes up among friends, I usually find myself having to contend with a barrage of impassioned and somewhat clichéd assaults from all sides. The most common one is the Gap Fallacy, and it goes something like…

It's a royal irony that if Brussels somehow found a way to impose political union on the people of Europe, anti-EU iconoclast and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would be its most popular candidate. His speeches regularly become YouTube hits. Widely…