Free Life, the Journal of the Libertarian Alliance

The customary rational socialist discourse that we have become so accustomed to from John Pilger:

The truth, of course, as with virtually everything Pilger writes, is quite the reverse. You hardly ever see an expert from the IEA or the ASI (or press coverage of their research and reports) on television without them being described (usually inaccurately) as "right wing" or "conservative". Pilger, on the hand, peddles his socialist propaganda and apologetics for tyranny without any "warning labels" regarding his political orientation.

A militant new man exposes how insidious political incorrectness can infiltrate even The Guardian:

Sophisticated cultural criticism from the organ (!) of a bunch of Nazis now attempting to infiltrate the Conservative party:

"For make no mistake about it, behind Madonna lurk the porno 'actresses' Trine Nicholson and Suzy Young, who can't even sing and dance; the justification of paedophilia (already supported by the Libertarian Right and tacitly by certain elements of 'gay liberation'); and complete sexual anarchy in cultural matters. For Madonna is a sort of symbol, the psychic whore for a liberal and materialistic society who attracts dollars... towards her from all directions".

Whether these jackboot boys, having returned from a bracing bout of political soldiering with the skinheads of the British National Party, are going to get very far within the blue rinsed ranks of Toryism is a moot point. They do seem a mite worked up over things sexual. Makes you wonder if they're harbouring some of those very same inclinations that characterised their German predecessors. Read on, read on:

"Unlike the libertarian Right, we believe that individuals are not sexually free and what they are is primarily conditioned by biology to begin with. That is why inversion is essentially a human tragedy, very few individuals are affected by it (around 2- 3 per cent at most), and even those that are can often entertain relations with the with the opposite sex, so the core number of inverts - those who would find heterosexuality completely imposs- ible - may be as little as 1 per cent of the population. The libertarian Right (so called) and the classical liberal posture which it represents are extreme sexual libertarians who advocate a form of libertinage a la the Marquis De Sade as an expression human freedom. We totally disagree with their vision, in later issues we will return to the libertarian Right and demolish it on all essential points, but for the moment we are concerned with its ideas about sexuality which are very current, partly because they can be made to appeal to the Left. Their view of man is of an atomised psyche alone in the world, they see human beings as nomads n their own deserts - often stunted and shrunken beings in a room of their own (rather like the characters in Samuel Becket plays). In such circumstances the individual defines himself for himself against society; whereas we say that the individual is defined by society in accordance with the limited conception which he has of his own freedom. We believe that man primarily exists for the state, rather than the other way round, a doctrine which appears to be extremely harsh and severe on first reading but is in actuality straight Catholic theology and very close to the truth. Few people wish to be free and are genuinely terrified of the prospect of real independent thought, while those individuals who are sexual perverts and so on that the libertarian Right would support are not free either. The idea, as shown in a recent trial at the House of Lords (the Spanner case), that men who wish to force spikes through each others' members are free, 'are expressing their liberty', is a nonsense. These men are not free: they are lonely, isolated, maladjusted, cretins ...

"If we are to have a manly, purposeful, priapic, and virulent new order then inversion - the intermingling of the sexes with one another within an individual, rather than between individuals - has to be stamped on. In all periods of decline and social decadence ... softness, introversion, inversion and general effeminacy in men proliferates. It is the opposite of the military virtues. In such circumstances, the biologically-ordained division between the sexes needs to be instilled."

Don't you just adore Mr. O'Hoolahan's liberated way with logic, grammar and punctuation. And come to think of it, who better to create a "priapic" and "virulent (?!?) new order" than a bunch of nasty pricks.

The socialists' sophisticated understanding of capitalism embodied in the metaphor of a new novel, praised, of course, by its reviewer in The Guardian:

"Vampires are not the most original metaphor in town - countless artistic arrivistes have noticed that their traditionally selfish little ways and tainted bodily fluids strike a contemporary chord. Anne Billson stakes her own claim to the territory in a novel which sees eighties London overwhelmed by pallid corporate vampires. Dora Vale, creative consultant and fearless vampire slayer, realises that her peers are quite literally bloodthirsty, the irony being that alive or undead the yuppie vampires remain 'shallow, boring, trivial', maniacally obsessed with status and salaries. Billson makes ingenious use of the vampire conceit, juggling gender roles, deconstructing and parodying all the lurid myths and flashing a winning hand of pop culture references ...

Billson identifies eighties Britain with the Weimar Republic - the vampire hordes with the Nazis in the sort of frivolous and jokey comparison that has been deemed deplorable and offensive in other writers."

The vicious apartheid system that rules in British tourism is exposed by, who else, a Guardian letter writer:

"The first is the general lack of interest from anti-racist orga- nisations, with the exception of the solitary CRE report. In my research last year for a television programme about the lack of black and ethnic minority visitors to the Suffolk countryside, despite Ipswich having a sizeable ethnic community, I was told by the Institute for Race Relations that 'it's not an issue'. Perhaps this will appease the 30,000 sikhs, who 'are up against a passive, stubborn and rural brand of British racism'.

"The second is the undefined notion of 'heritage' in a supposedly multi-cultural society. Look at the tourist brochures and the higher and adult education courses in 'heritage'; they are his- torically sensitised and Anglocentric. For the guardians and purveyors of 'heritage', such as the National Trust, the British Tourist Authority and the Civic Trust, the links between race, heritage and culture appear not to be issues.

"Yet there are countless monuments and buildings which, like Elvedon Hall, have a fascinating cultural heritage, parts of Hadrian's Wall were guarded by a black Roman division and Harewood House near Leeds, was built by the Lascelles family on the back of slavery. Why not be honest in guide books, courses and in visitor interpretation facilities? It might attract a more diverse range of visitors, thereby generating much needed increases in revenue.