Ten
years of Being Perhaps Three Quarters Right
by Sean Gabb
The other day, I sent out an issue of Free Life Commentary that suggested I was about to give up on political writing. If I really did suggest that—and I do seem to have done so!—I apologise. All I meant to say was that I was about to become very busy with other matters, and that I might have less time than usual for political writing. Those who were led to fear or hope that I was planning to shut up were misled.
I will continue to write and publish. Certainly, I have duties as Director of the Libertarian Alliance that must be continued.
There may well be another half dozen issues of Free Life Commentary between now and Christmas. There may be. Or there may not be. There will, I promise, be the usual stream of news releases and other notices of Libertarian Alliance events and publications.
Now, I see that Free Life Commentary is ten years old this month. I began it back in the days when I still pretended to edit Free Life, the journal of the Libertarian Alliance. This was supposed to be a quarterly, but never came out more than three times a year, and very often came out less frequently than that. I discovered the Internet in September 1993, and gradually began to send out articles I had written for Free Life, but that might not be published for several months. At first, these reached only a few dozen or at most a few hundred readers. I then noticed that they were reaching thousands of readers and were having a much larger impact than in hard copy publication. The result was that I became less and less attentive to bringing out issues of Free Life; and I have now not brought out an issue for several years.
It is not true that hard copy publication has no place in fringe politics. The considerable success of my latest book, Cultural Revolution, Cultural War, shows that people still buy and read conventional books. There is also The Salisbury Review that Merrie Cave continues to publish every quarter despite a lack of funding. And Derek Turner has just revived the old Quarterly Review with every appearance of success. But there is no doubt that hard copy journal publication requires much more money than the Libertarian Alliance presently has; and our Internet outreach now embraces about a twenty thousand people directly and unknown numbers indirectly.
Therefore, Free Life withered away, but Free Life Commentary continued. When Chris Tame made me Director of the Libertarian Alliance just before his death last year, I did think to end the series and begin a new series called Director's Commentary or the like. But established brands should not be changed without good reason, even when the name itself has lost its original significance. And since what I write often does not represent the opinion of the other Libertarian Alliance Officers, it did seem to make sense to keep the distinction between the existing series and any ex cathedra statements I might make in news releases or official submissions. I shall need to do something when the numbering of Free Life Commentary reaches 999. But considering the frequency of issues since September 1997, I suspect this will not be a problem I ever need to face.
Every evening before I go to sleep, I condemn myself for idleness and the waste of another day that will not come again. I did intend, ten years ago, to bring out an issue of Free Life Commentary every week. I then intended to bring one out every fortnight. Quite often, though, I do nothing for a whole month. Sometimes, I let month after month go by with nothing new written. Even so, I have, during the past decade, written and published 164 issues. That amounts to one on average every three weeks or so. Assuming an average length of 2,500 words gives a total of 410,000 words of polemical commentary. Add to this all else I have written in the same time, and I seem to have managed at least a million words. In consequence, I am perhaps more disorganised than idle. Many professional journalists have written less.
I give below a full list of all issues of Free Life Commentary, together with links. Of course, I encourage you to browse through this listing. Also, if you wish to comment on anything I have written, however old it may now be, I do strongly urge you to use the Comment button at the head of each article. These give a blog-like extension to each article and allow comments to be seen by everyone. Because of the great volume of e-mail that I now receive every day, and because I am about to become really busy with other things, I have decided to stop responding to most comments that are sent privately to me.
I leave it to you to decide what is the best, or perhaps the least bad, Free Life Commentary I have written. I think the most ludicrous is the one I wrote in January 2001, when I welcomed Mr Bush as President on the grounds that he would turn away from the aggressive foreign policy of Mr Clinton. If I were less vain than I am, or if I had a duller sense of humour, that would have come down years ago. But it remains up as a warning to anyone who would write about the politics of a foreign country that he seldom visits and to the culture of which he pays little attention.
Against this lapse, and against other articles that have been shown up by the passing of time, I mention my writings on the Conservative Party and against the war with Iraq. These make up a large portion of the Free Life Commentaries, and the passing of time has shown that I was largely right. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and the war was a disaster. As for the Conservatives, they would have done better than they have had they put me in charge of policy in May 1997, and kept me there ever since, and listened carefully to me throughout. They would probably now be rejoicing in their landslide majority in May 2007, following their much smaller victory in May 2002. But they did not do this, and it is now too late to hope they will become the means by which the country can be saved from the horrors of New Labour or from the reaction that may follow.
For those less interested than I am in politics, there are reflections on ghosts, on dreaming, on bookbinding, on dieting, and on the ancient languages. And there are several entries from the diary that I have kept since I was a boy, and that now runs to about two million words. Aside from endless descriptions of my doings and lamentations on my failings, this contains a complete narrative of the Libertarian Alliance since about 1987, and a personal history, written from the heart of the Slovak Government, on the disintegration of Czechoslovakia. One day, I may except these into books. Otherwise, you must wait until I am dead.
If there is any main theme to all this mass of published words it is the collapse of conservatism in the traditional sense that we have faced in this country since 1997. Until then, the forms of our Constitution were largely intact, and it was possible to hope that a reaction against the destructive changes of the previous few generations could avoid any institutional break. Since then, these forms have been either destroyed or co-opted into a new order of things that is incompatible with either individual freedom or national independence. The House of Lords no longer exists in the traditional sense. The Church has become a joke that cries out for disestablishment. The Monarchy has made a deal with the new ruling class, in which it will continue to exist as a figurehead for the new order of things. Even the Bench is being steadily packed with judges who see their function as the enforcement of political correctness and at least one of whom used to be a Communist. The House of Commons no longer represents the people, but is a rubber stamp body packed with placemen. The leading businessmen are all corporatists who delight in a system that allows them to make profits guaranteed by the State.
Perhaps this had been the case for many years before 1997. Certainly, it was no sudden achievement of the Blair Government. But at the end of ten years, the bonds of continuity, at least in my own mind, have been broken. I have lost any sense of being part of a community that includes the dead. When I look now at some state occasion, I am no longer carried back to an earlier age of freedom and independence. I see only men in silly hats and uniforms putting on a show for the gullible.
If we are ever to get out of the mess in which we find ourselves, we need not another 1688 or even a 1641. We need another 1649 and 1650. We need not another William to heal our grievance, but another Oliver. If we are to be reconnected to the England that was, some links may need to be tied off.
Assuming I can remain willing and able, I do not think I shall find any lack of excuse for writing in the next ten years. We live in very interesting times, and the Eye of History is very much on us. And, good or bad, all that I have written and may yet write, will be useful for the armies of historians who will one day try to tell the story of the death, and, I can still hope, the rebirth, of England. In saying this, I make no claims for the quality of my writing, but only for its volume and its attempt to articulate a point of view that may be shared by many but that is seldom found in the establishment media.
But enough of this. Below are the fruits of ten years of reasonably diligent observation of and commentary on the world.
Issue 164 11th September 2007 Reflections on the
Failure of Political Leadership,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc164.htm
Issue 163 29th June 2007 Two Wasted Hours in
Doughty Street,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc163.htm
Issue 162 27th June 2007 Tony Blair: The Traitor
Departs,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc162.htm
Issue 161 25th June 2007 Madsen Pirie:
Novelist-a Review Article,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc161.htm
Issue 160 21st June 2007 The Second Meeting of
the Property and Freedom Society, turkey, May 2007,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc160.htm
Issue 159 24th April 2007 Defending the Right to Deny the Holocaust,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc159.htm
Issue 158 31st March 2007 The Emperor Has no Clothes: A Review Article,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc158.htm
Issue 157 2nd January 2007 More on the Persecution of the BNP,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc157.htm
Issue 156 26th October 2006 A Brief Guide to Self-Publishing,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc156.htm
Issue 155 26th October 2006 On Opposing the DNA
Database,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc155.htm
Issue 154 13th October 2006 Jack Straw: A Man to Bet on,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc154.htm
Issue 153 26th September 2006 That Sheep May Safely Graze,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc153.htm
Issue 152 26th September 2006 Thoughts on Limited Liability,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc152.htm
Issue 151 8th August 2006 My Novel: A Brief Puff,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc151.htm
Issue 150 12th July 2006 Looking Beyond Nuclear,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc150.htm
Issue 149 9th July 2006 Happiness by Decree,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc149.htm
Issue 148 14th June 2006 The Inaugural Meeting of the Property and Freedom
Society: An Incidental Record,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc148.htm
Issue 147 7th May 2006 Tony Blair: Let There be no Easy Way Out for Him,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc147.htm
Issue 146 22nd March 2006 The Daily Mail, Forgery, and the corruption of Debate,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc146.htm
Issue 145 16the April 2006 Emma Chamberlain and the Astor Theatre: How
Dissidents are Treated in Modern England,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc145.htm
Issue 144 22nd March 2006 Chris R. Tame (1949-2006): An Obituary,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc144.htm
Issue 143 22nd January 2006 Mark Oaten, Rent Boys and the Secret Police: A View
of How England is Governed at the End of its History,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc143.htm
Issue 142 14th December 2005 David Cameron and the Conservative Party: A
Farewell to the Quisling Right?, by Sean Gabb
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc142.htm
Issue 141 4th October 2005 On Living in a Political Vacuum,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc141.htm
Issue 140 28th September 2005 The Difference between Doing and Looking:
Reflections on the Case of Subhaan Younis,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc140.htm
Issue 139 1st September 2005 Market Failure and the Pharmaceutical Industry: A
Proposal for Reform,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc139.htm
Issue 138 16th August 2005 The Reform of Alcohol Licensing in England: One Step
Forward, Two Steps Back,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc138.htm
Issue 137 6th July 2005 Putting a Case for Guns,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc137.htm
Issue 136 7th May 2005 The General Election Result: A Brief Comment from the
Right,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc136.htm
Issue 135 16th April 2005 Free Trade v Fair Trade: A Debate Organised by
Christian Aid, St Margaret's Church, Westminster, The Evening of Friday 15th
April 2005, 12:15am - 1:15 am, A Speech Together with Introduction and Brief
Commentary,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc135.htm
Issue 134 7th April 2005 On Conversing with the British National Party,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc134.htm
Issue 133 14th March 2005 Forget the Election: How We by Delaying Yet May Save
the Nation,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc133.htm
Issue 132 14th March 2005 Tax, Public Spending and Everything Else: The Sorry
Truth about the Conservative Hidden Agenda,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc132.htm
Issue 131 14th March 2005 The Jaws of the Trap Are Closing: Hunting, the Courts
and the Constitution, by Sean Gabb
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc131.htm
Issue 130 16th February 2005 What's Wrong With British Conservatism? Text of a
Speech Given at at The Royal Society of Arts, Tuesday the 15th February 2005,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc130.htm
Issue 129 27th November 2004 Home Education: Do It Yourself, Do It Better,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc129.htm
Issue 128 17th November 2004 Less is Good, Nothing is Better: How the State Can
Improve British Education,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc128.htm
Issue 127 30th September 2004 Annual Reflections on the Quisling Right,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc127.htm
Issue 126 18th August 2004 Truancy: A Personal Perspective,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc126.htm
Issue 125 9th August 2004 Quote the Bible: Go to Jail,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc125.htm
Issue 124 28th July 2004 An Ode to Timothy Starr, a Libertarian Who Supported
the War with Iraq
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc124.htm
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc123.htm
Issue 123 1st June 2004 Vote UKIP for a Better Tory Government,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc122.htm
Issue 122 19th May 2004 Washington and Brussels: Apology,
Retraction, Clarification ,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc121.htm
Issue 121 11th May 2004 Iraq: I Wish I Had Been Wrong,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc120.htm
Issue 120 27th April 2004 Fat Children: Sad, but not Our Problem,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc119.htm
Issue 119 12th February 2004 Looking for Truth Among the
Propaganda: Towards a Critical Reading of the Media,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc118.htm
Issue 118 19th January 2004 The War with Iraq: Nine Months After,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc117.htm
Issue 117 12th January 2004 Nothing Much, But Written Anyway:
Read This and Stop Asking Me to Start a Blog,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc116.htm
Issue 116 28th November 2003 In Defence of the Right to Encourage
Gross Fatness,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc115.htm
Issue 115 4th November 2003 Michael Howard as Conservative
Leader: Dracula Will Have to Do,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc114.htm
Issue 114 2nd November 2003 Thoughtcrime and The Secret
Policeman: A Case Study in Discourse Theory,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc113.htm
Issue 113 13th October 2003 Not Socialism, but Post-Socialism:
The Nature of the Enemy ,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc112.htm
Issue 112 19th September 2003 An Afternoon with Tony Martin,
Issue 111 1st September 2003 What is Happening in Dover? More Reason to Blame
Tony Blair,
Issue 110 25th August 2003 "Nej Till Euron": Fighting the Evil Empire in
Another of Its Provinces
Http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc110.htm
Issue 109 18th August 2003 Out of the Closet: Confessions of a
Dieter,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc109.htm
Issue 108 8th August 2003 The Joys of Bookbinding,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc108.htm
Issue 107 16th June 2003 Farewell to the Lord Chancellor: A Brief
Comment on the Continuing New Labour Revolution,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc107.htm
Issue 106 5th June 2003 How Much Longer Must We Endure Tony
Blair?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc106.htm
Issue 105 28th May 2003 On Being Uncertain: A Case for Scepticism
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc105.htm
Issue 104 3rd May 2003 On Ghosts and the Supernatural
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc104.htm
Issue 103 3rd May 2003 Will Tony Blair Resign If He Turns Out to
Have Lied About The "Weapons of Mass Destruction"?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc103.htm
Issue 102 28th April 2003 Why Criticising American Foreign Policy
is not Anti-Americanism
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc102.htm
Issue 101 14th April 2003 The War: Won but not Over
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc101.htm
Issue 100 9th April 2003 The Value of Education
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc100.htm
Issue 99 9th April 2003 Review of Neville Chamberlain,
Appeasement and the British Road to War
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc099.htm
Issue 98 7th April 2003 Why Tony Blair Must be Destroyed: A
Conservative Case
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc098.htm
Issue 97 2nd April 2003 Patriotism and the War: Two Weeks On
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc097.htm
Issue 96 22nd March 2003 The Lessons of History
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc096.htm
Issue 95 20th March 2003 With Sorrow and with Anger
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc095.htm
Issue 94 13th March 2003 Tony Blair: An Appreciation
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc094.htm
Issue 93 11th March 2003 The New Geography of British Politics
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc093.htm
Issue 92 5th March 2003 The War and Domestic Politics: A Prayer
for Boredom
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc092.htm
Issue 91 28th February 2003 The problem with the Conservative
Party: A Brief Reply to Steve Davies
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc091.htm
Issue 90 4th February 2003 Washington and Brussels: Not Either
or, Perhaps, but Both and
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc090.htm
Issue 89 30th January 2003 Should the Elgin Marbles be Returned
to Athens?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc089.htm
Issue 88 17th January 2003 Hunting Paedophiles in England:
Present Madness, Future Shame
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc088.htm
Issue 87 16th January 2003 Identity Cards: Some Brief Objections
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc087.htm
Issue 86 9th December 2002 A Defence of Free Enterprise: Part
Three—The Myth of "Rip-Off Britain"
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc086.htm
Issue 85 9th December 2002 A Defence of Free Enterprise: Part
Two—The Cost of Bad Economics
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc085.htm
Issue 84 9th December 2002 A Defence of Free Enterprise: Part
One—Enterprise; The Hidden Factor
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc084.htm
Issue 83 9th December 2002 In Defence of the Monarchy
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc083.htm
Issue 82 5th December 2002 God, Margaret Thatcher, and the
Established Church of England
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc082.htm
Issue 81 4th December 2002 A Record of a Debate Held by the Local
Government Association on Wednesday the 4th December 2002 on the Motion: “This
House Believes Promoting Diversity Causes Discrimination”
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc081.htm
Issue 80 28th November 2002 Why Do I Never Reply to Messages? An
Apology to All My Correspondents
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc080.htm
Issue 79 18th November 2002 Sufficient Unto the Day: New Labour
and My Pension
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc079.htm
Issue 78 18th November 2002 Is There a Right in Ireland?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc078.htm
Issue 77 15th November 2002 On the Libertarian Alliance and
Libertarian International Conference in London, November 2002
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc077.htm
Issue 76 7th November 2002 What is Wrong with Gay Adoption?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc076.htm
Issue 75 6th November 2002 The Conservatives: Will They Surprise
Us?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc075.htm
Issue 74 5th November 2002 The Conservatives: Do We Really Need
Them?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc074.htm
Issue 73 25th October 2002 Saving the Kiddies, Enslaving Adults
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc073.htm
Issue 72 30th September 2002 In Praise of Edwina Currie
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc072.htm
Issue 71 11th September 2002 Why Britain Should not Go to War
with Iraq
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc071.htm
Issue 70 5th September 2002 Late Published Thoughts on the
American Bombings
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc070.htm
Issue 69 1st August 2002 Diary Entry Covering Dennis O'Keeffe's
Inaugural Lecture at Buckingham University
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc069.htm
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc068.htm
Issue 68 2nd July 2002 Return to Sanity? More on the Tory
Recovery
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc067.htm
Issue 67 26th June 2002 Why the Double Jeopardy Rule Should not
be Changed
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc066.htm
Issue 66 6th May 2002 Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph, and the
"Free Country" Campaign: The Quisling Right Still Rides
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc065.htm
Issue 65 8th April 2002 Paris in the Springtime with a Fistful of
Euros: A Record of the Libertarian International Spring Convention, Paris, 5-8th
April 2002
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc064.htm
Issue 64 12th March 2002 What to Do with the Candidlist?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc063.htm
Issue 63 22nd February 2002 The "Metric Martyrs" and the
Constitution
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc062.htm
Issue 62 28th January 2002 Further Thoughts on Iain Duncan Smith
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc061.htm
Issue 61 28th January 2001 Time to Stop Being Beastly to the
Tories?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc060.htm
Issue 60 17th December 2001 Arguments Against British Membership
of the Euro
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc059.htm
Issue 59 17th December 2001 A Case Against the European Union
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc058.htm
Issue 58 11th November 2001 "Uniting Europe without the Union" A
Conference in Prague 2-5 November 2001A Brief Record of Proceedings
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc057.htm
Issue 57 10th October 2001 What to Do About Israel
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc056.htm
Issue 56 8th October 2001 Plain Thoughts on the Afghan War
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc055.htm
Issue 55 4th September 2001 Review of The Oxford Latin Course
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc054.htm
Issue 54 27th August 2001 A Few Words on the Conservative
Leadership Election
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc053.htm
Issue 53 24th July 2001 Review of Macaulay's History of England
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc052.htm
Issue 52 9th July 2001 The Daily Telegraph "Free Counry"
Campaign: More from the Quisling Right?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc051.htm
Issue 51 9th July 2001 Review of Deep Citizenship by Barry Clarke
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc050.htm
Issue 50 15th June 2001 Inquest on a "Lost" Election
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc049.htm
Issue 49 18th May 2001 Four Dreams of a Better Future Than New
Labour Has in Mind for Us
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc048.htm
Issue 48 30th April 2001 William Hague and the Race Relations
Industry: A Few Words of Pity
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc047.htm
Issue 47 22nd January 2001 How to Destroy the Enemy Class: A
Manifesto for the Right
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc046.htm
Issue 46 8th November 2000 The American Election: An English
Perspective
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc045.htm
Issue 45 3rd November 2000 One Year of the Candidlist: An
Appraisal
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc044.htm
Issue 44 20th September 2000 On Watching to Olympic Games on
Television
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc043.htm
Issue 43 14th September 2000 Thoughts on the Fuel Strike, and why
it may be the Death Knell of the Conservative Party
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc042.htm
Issue 42 5th September 2000 Thoughts on the DNA Database
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc041.htm
Issue 41 25th July 2000 Jack Straw, Corruption, and the New World
Order
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc040.htm
Issue 40 16th May 2000 Double Jeopardy and the Conservative Party
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc039.htm
Issue 39 19th February 2000 Reflections on the Current State of
British Politics
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc038.htm
Issue 38 1st January 2000 My "Millennium" Diary
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc037.htm
Issue 37 14th November 1999 Reflections on the Gary Glitter Case
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc036.htm
Issue 36 23rd September 1999 Sean Gabb v Brian Micklethwait, and
the Debate over Libertarian Strategy
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc035.htm
Issue 35 24th August 1999 A Letter of Solicitation from the Rt
Hon Michael Ancram QC MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party Edited with a
Commentary
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc034.htm
Issue 34 14th August 1999 24 Fairly Crowded Hours
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc033.htm
Issue 33 12th July 1999 George Staunton: First Martyr of the
Anti-EU Movement
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc032.htm
Issue 32 4th June 1999 Clare Short: La Pasonaria of the Serbian
War
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc031.htm
Issue 31 2nd May 1999 How not to Stop the London Bombings: In
Defence of Liberal Democracy
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc030.htm
Issue 30 21st April 1999 Peter Lilley and the Welfare State: Why
the Tories May be Doomed After all
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc029.htm
Issue 29 26th March 1999 Thoughts on the Serbian War
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc028.htm
Issue 28 20th February 1999 Robert Henderson v Tony Blair: A Tale
of New Britain
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc027.htm
Issue 27 26th January 1999 Nelson's Second Death: Thoughts on the
Refurbishment of the National Maritime Museum
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc026.htm
Issue 26 31st December 1998 Hard Labour, Worthless Tories
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc025.htm
Issue 25 30th December 1998 Reflections on the Pinochet Case
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc024.htm
Issue 24 25th November 1998 Why the Hereditary Peers Should Stay
in the House of Lords
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc023.htm
Issue 23 25th October 1998 From a Reluctant Supporter: An Open
Letter to William Hague, Leader of the British Conservative Party
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc022.htm
Issue 22 16th September 1998 Thoughts on the New Geography of
British Politics
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc021.htm
Issue 21 10th August 1998 How and How not to Win The War of
English Independence
Issue 19 7th July 1998 Dr Pirie has Not Changed Trains (But
Remains Waiting on the Platform
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc019.htm
Issue 18 3rd July 1998 Dr Pirie Changes Trains (But Continues in
the Same Direction)
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc018.htm
Issue 17 10th May 1998 Nothing Original, but Still Worth Sending
Out: Another 1400 Words Against Drug Prohibition
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc017.htm
Issue 16 15th April 1998 The Attack on the Motor Car
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc016.htm
Issue 15 30th March 1998 Why Drinking and Driving Should not be a
Crime: Version Two,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc015.htm
Issue 14 9th March 1998 Armed Men on the Streets of London,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc014.htm
Issue 13 28th February 1998 How to Get Rid of New Labour, and Why it Will Probably not be Done: An Open Letter to William Hague, Leader of the Conservative Party http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc013.htm
Issue 12 19th February 1998 The People vs Jerry Sadowitz: A
Public Warning,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc012.htm
Issue 11 16th February 1998 More on the British Encryption Ban:
An Open Letter to Nigel Hickson of the Department of Trade and Industry in
London
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc011.htm
Issue 10 10th February 1998 Next Week's British Encryption Ban
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc010.htm
Issue 9 21st February 1998 Review of Paul Verhoeven's film
version of Starship Troopers
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc009.htm
Issue 8 10th June 1998 Introducing Brian Micklethwait
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc008.htm
Issue 7 12th December 1997 Why Drinking and Driving Should not be
a Crime
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc007.htm
Issue 6 10th December 1997 Another Rant Against the Metric System
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc006.htm
Issue 5 27th October 1997, One Europe, One Union, One Faith?
Comments on the Persecution of Scientologists in Europe
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc005.htm
Issue 4 5th October 1997, They Were Stuffed: How Not to Stand up
for Guns in England
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc004.htm
Issue 3 29th September 1997, On Money Laundering and the New
World Order: Two Book Reviews
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc003.htm
Issue 2 7th September 1997, Why Libertarians Should Sing "God
Save the Queen"
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc002.htm
Issue 1 1st September 1997, Why
the English Should Welcome Scottish Independence
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc001.htm
NB—Sean Gabb's new book, Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How
Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back,
can be downloaded free from
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