The Ludwig von Mises Centre

David Davis

I would like to write an elegy for Tony.

For, out of all the surviving early members of the Libertarian Alliance, I probably knew him best and got closest to him as a friend for a time.

In the mid-1970s this wretched Planet was being steadily consumed by “social democracy” and (worse, locally) “Eurocommunism”. Anyone remember that one then? No, I thought not. In this time, Chris Tame  – who needs no introduction on here – Tony Hollick, and others including me as a latecomer, formed the core of the current Libertarian Alliance. The Alternative Bookshop [40 Floral Street, Covent Garden, WC2] of which if you are on here now, you will know, was the hub.

Now, Tony had had a somewhat exciting life previously, as a capitalist-entrepreneur, being in a rather comforable “good way of doing”  – as they say down in Liverpool. He had previously owned a Facel Vega motor car, when these were new and extremely expensive, and of which he had been very proud. When I met him, he was working at The National Association For Freedom (later the freedom Association) and he was living in the back room of the Alternative Bookshop with his very very large ginger cat, Beeper, who himself became a minor character of the British libertarian movement. Somewhere in my Library is a photograph of early LA members, posed behind Beeper in a foreground commanding position. Beeper was a Free Cat.

In 1980/81, Tony and I Read more

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David Davis

I’m going through a barren patch and can’t think what to write

About the things that sadden us, and tell us who to smite.

Our masters all contend to occupy the common ground

Of centrist statist nannying, a strident baleful sound

Of bullying directives that the telescreens project,

Its loudhailers all in unison, whatever you select!

To live through the endarkenment, a fate none comprehended

A mere 50 years ago – and now for Read more

David Davis

It is reasonable to say that the Director’s view about Elizabeth-The-Useless is sound. She has done nothing much to reverse the loss of sovereignty of the British People, whether against the EU or whether against our own BritishPolitical-EnemyClass.

The Sovereignty of the British People is critical to the survival of libertarianism globally. It is a necessary but also not sufficient condition for this thing.

But she has tried, insofar as it was allowed in her power, to maintain some sort of relationship – which may yet prove useful – between Her Realms. Not all of these places are useless socialist dross. This is quite unlike any other collection of post-imperial territories on this planet. Here she is visiting 265 of them.

David Davis The Libertarian Alliance being a charity promoting discussion of liberal minimal-statist ideas, it is not correct to describe here the desired means of political demolition of any British political party. But it is also needful to suggest what could be done to ameliorate the conditions under which millions of British People still live in areas where socialism is the hegemonic philosophy among local warlords. I wrote a thing on facebook about eleven minutes ago, dealing with what could be done to prevent red areas on a map spreading any further, and indeed making them smaller in time. For anyone who would like to see my suggestions, it is here:- https://www.facebook.com/ddaviseducation/posts/10153400842267518