Liberty Today: Recent Episodes
Gary J. Hall
Mostly UK focused musings on current events through the lens of individual liberty. Episodes are very natural sounding text-to-speech conversions of posts from my long-running liberty blog libertytoday.uk
"Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force." ~ Auberon Herbert
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/11/28/extinction-rebellion-anti-human-humanitarianism/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/10/16/the-frightening-power-of-political-panic/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/07/28/a-post-capitalist-future-would-be-as-awful-as-a-our-pre-capitalist-past/
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/06/01/indiscriminate-vaccination-is-wasteful-and-negligent/
"As a high-profile victim of cancel culture and nasty left-wing zealots, Laurence Fox deserves credit for using what happened to him as motivation to take to a political platform and expose the true racist, regressive and repulsive nature of the woke ideology that has consumed the left-wing of British politics."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/05/05/fair-play-to-laurence-fox/
"As Professor Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University has said, lockdowns were only ever the illusion of control. A dangerous illusion. One that bewitched politicians who were only too eager to exercise totalitarian control over a scared public who themselves wanted to believe the government could control the virus and keep them safe."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/04/17/barmy-boris-blind-faith-in-lockdowns/
"9/11 and the coronavirus pandemic. Two major political events twenty years apart. They were very different in nature, but both created a period of mass fear. And that’s why in both cases, government power was rapidly and massively expanded..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/04/14/the-echoes-of-9-11-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic/
"When will the apologies come?"
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/04/07/when-will-the-apologies-come/
"That the public was and still is so deeply misinformed about covid-19 speaks volumes about the standard of journalism today’s mainstream media has produced over the last year..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/04/03/15050/
"...the state has taken over every house of God in England and Scotland. Church leaders would surely deny that God is dead, but they can’t deny that he is homeless. Evicted by men in government, who for a year have been acting like Gods..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/03/27/the-year-the-state-evicted-god/
"The Tory revolt might not prevent the establishing of a public health police state in the end, but at the very least it’s a sign that UK politics has a pulse once again..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/03/26/tory-revolt-may-be-libertys-only-hope/
On the 1-year anniversary of lockdowns, I wrote to my representatives in the Scottish parliament. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/03/23/a-letter-to-scottish-mps/
"What does it say about the leaders and the managers of our society that it apparently did not occur to them that shutting down society would have truly terrible consequences for humanity?..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2021/03/21/liberty-matters-and-it-matters-the-most/
"As soon as politicians forcibly took over the managing of society's response to the pandemic, the pandemic became politicized. It became just another way for politicians to win the favour of special interest groups and popularity with the public. Because politicians are always doing politics..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/12/23/science-powerful-governments-tyranny/
"With authoritarians Left and Right, democracy is no longer a defense against tyranny in the UK. The UK needs a miracle. It needs a political shift of a magnitude never seen before in the history of British democracy..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/11/25/authoritarianism-is-an-epidemic/
"Authoritarians are not humanitarians. They can’t be. And that’s true of scientists who advocate totalitarian government as well as the politicians who enact it..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/10/12/authoritarians-are-not-humanitarians/
"In terms of avoidable deaths, liberties lost, economic damage, and respect for human rights and dignity, the UK government’s managing of the pandemic has been awful..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/05/14/lives-liberties-lost-britains-disastrous-response-to-the-pandemic/
"Elected governments the world over, with only a few exceptions, showed a sickening lack of regard for human life when they elected to shut the world down through totalitarian government measures..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/05/04/the-legacy-of-lock-down-will-be-many-dead-and-much-regret/
"The global lock-down must end now. We must avoid normalising our current state of existence, otherwise the present will imperceptibly morph into the future. If that happens, then our children will end up living their lives under tyranny born of our fears."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/03/23/the-global-outbreak-of-totalitarianism/
"The Coronavirus pandemic is showing how quickly today’s democratic states can morph into tyrannies and just how comfortable people in authority are with removing our liberties overnight..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/03/16/yes-theres-a-pandemic-but-people-still-have-rights/
"A society in which the police arrest kids for causing offence, who are still young enough to be playing with marbles, is one that has lost its moral marbles..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/02/13/wont-somebody-please-arrest-the-children/
"...Boris Johnson’s idea of free trade is the people of Britain being free to trade with the rest of the world those goods which the government allows them to produce..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2020/02/08/boris-johnson-might-love-liberty-but-he-also-loves-power/
"What’s being done to Julian Assange is monstrous. It can only be described as evil. And people at every level of the UK justice system are complicit in the evil being done to him..."
This episode is also available as a blog post:http://libertytoday.uk/2019/10/24/assanges-treatment-reminds-us-of-the-brutal-reality-of-state-power/
"Venezuela is the world’s living lesson that you can’t get rid of poverty through the brute force of the law..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2019/05/07/the-tragedy-of-venezuela/
"The UK and the western world are facing an emergency, but it’s not an environmental one. it’s an intellectual one. It’s an emergency of reason and sanity..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2019/05/02/the-green-movements-pigtailed-prophet-of-doom/
"Government schools have always been figurative mental prisons, but for many children across the UK today, state school has literally become a prison..."
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://libertytoday.uk/2019/04/17/why-government-schools-are-behaving-like-prisons/