Thanks to his comment to my recent Samizdata post, I am pleased to discover a newish blog from Northern Ireland: Squander Two Blog. At a stroke this doubles the number of libertarians people with opinions on liberty*, of whom I am aware, north of the border (the other one is Samizdata's own Dale Amon)
*latest editorial policy at Samizdata, don't you know...
Is the "root causes" approach part of the new editorial policy too?
Posted by: Peter Nolan | September 29, 2004 at 10:17 PM
Please elaborate...
Posted by: Frank McGahon | September 29, 2004 at 10:43 PM
"What about the root causes of the [boobles'] anger and frustration?" from one recent discussion.
Posted by: Peter Nolan | September 30, 2004 at 08:48 AM
I think that's a little joke
Posted by: Frank McGahon | September 30, 2004 at 11:07 AM
I'm not so sure that it was...
Posted by: Peter Nolan | September 30, 2004 at 08:52 PM
Peter, you'll find that the "root cause" formulation is well known at Samizdata and David Carr chooses his words carefully, usually with humorous intent. I refer you to a previous post by David on Jenny Tonge: Root Causes version 2.0. You can be sure that if he inadvertently laped into "root causes" type thinking, he would have used a different form of words. In this post he was poking fun at the type of people who trot out the root causes excuse for terrorist violence, yet wouldn't be caught dead extending the same consideration to the far more harmless countryside alliance crowd.
Posted by: Frank McGahon | September 30, 2004 at 10:39 PM
haven't you forgotten that other person of liberty?
Posted by: enda johnson | October 04, 2004 at 09:35 AM
I don't know an awful lot about David Vance but my impression is that he would consider himself to be a conservative, not a (classic) liberal.
Posted by: Frank McGahon | October 04, 2004 at 09:52 AM
I'd be more worried about the people at liberty in NI meself.
Posted by: Peter Nolan | October 04, 2004 at 03:37 PM