Articles by Roland Watson

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The Devil in Front of Us

Sure there are conspiracies, but what about the devil in plain view?

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11/13/2002

Eulogy to Gold

Roland Watson realizes an ancient truth.

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9/9/2002

The Price of Non-Failure

Roland Watson on the wit's end of educational egalitarianism.

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8/16/2002

The Wisdom of the Irish

Saying no to an expanded Eurostate.

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8/10/2002

The Last Stalinists

Roland Watson on the last Stalinists.

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7/22/2002

Political Idolatry

Roland Watson on the state and the economy.

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7/17/2002

Rough Justice

The property-owner goes to jail, the criminal is exalted.

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7/11/2002

Hail, Hail, Freedonia!

Roland Watson is politically inspired by the greatest Marx Brothers movie.

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7/2/2002

One Lady – Many Toasts

Roland Watson helps celebrate a Christian defense of capitalism.

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5/25/2002

Soccer Socialism

Football, as they call it in the rest of the world, needs a little free enterprise, says Roland Watson.

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5/21/2002

Arrogance

The prime characteristic of politicians, says Roland Watson.

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4/27/2002

Sacre Bleu!

Roland Watson says it's fine to bother the left, but LePen is a problem.

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4/24/2002

The Limits of Taxation

Roland Watson looks at taxation in the UK and Sweden.

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4/19/2002

Demolition Job

Roland Watson on libertarian progress in Scotland.

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4/8/2002

The Church of Socialism

Roland Watson wants to know what's with ministers.

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3/27/2002

That's One Small Step For The Markets …

And one giant step for statism.

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3/23/2002

The Ten Commandments

Including the State.

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2/27/2002

Moral Schizophrenia

Nothing wrong with hunting vermin, says Roland Watson, and it should be entirely the property owner's decision.

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2/16/2002

Private Letters

The British prepare to privatize the former Royal Mail.

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2/4/2002

Greed

Roland Watson on greed.

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1/21/2002

The United States of Europe

Or Switzerland. That's the choice, says Roland Watson.

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1/17/2002

Nuclear Suitcase Bomb Feedback

More from Roland Watson on a possible nuclear terrorist attack.

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1/9/2002

The Destructive Effects of a Nuclear Suitcase Bomb

Roland Watson on the terrifying details. (And thanks again, FDR, for your Satanic device.)

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1/4/2002

Silent Night

Roland Watson on Stanley Weintraub's new book on the WWI Christmas truce.

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12/29/2001

Clinton Spotting

Roland Watson on the incredible shrinking ex-prez – in Scotland.

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12/21/2001

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Roland Watson on modern art.

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12/17/2001

State Favoritism

And how favoritism created it.

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12/3/2001

Y2K

But did that whole episode have anything to do with the Crash?

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11/18/2001

Power Corrupts

Even in Scotland, says Roland Watson.

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11/9/2001

The State Versus The Microbe

And guess who wins. Article by Roland Watson.

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10/29/2001

State vs. Community

The State hates all intermediating institutions, especially real communities.

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10/22/2001

A Botched Privatisation

And Osama Bin Laden.

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10/13/2001

Prophecy Fulfilled

Roland Watson on national ID cards.

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9/26/2001

A Vicious Circle

Don't escalate.

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9/14/2001

The Retreat Of Common Sense

And not only because the socialists hate it.

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9/7/2001

St. Paul and Roman Statism

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9/3/2001

Creeping Privatization?

Britain's National Health Service, or the patients?

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8/6/2001

Gun Control Does Not Work

In Britain too, says Roland Watson.

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7/18/2001

An Education To Us All

State vs. private schools in Scotland.

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Ye Are Cursed With A Curse!

Roland Watson on the new parliament building in Scotland, and the nature of government.

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State Interference on the Radio

In Britain, multiculturalism is promulgated on State radio, which will have no other stations before it.

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The State As God

Roland Watson on what the left-liberals and socialists really believe.

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Britain Goes to the Polls

And it's statists vs. statists.

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The Captive Market

Roland Watson considers private prisons, public prisons, and the State. Maybe flogging is better after all.

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You’ve Been Quangoed!

A peek into the nature of the State from Roland Watson, our man in Scotland.

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Parental Conflict

Necessity is the mother of invention and the free market is the father of its realization, says Roland Watson.

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Semi-Detached From Reality

Housing socialism. Article by our Scottish correspondent, Roland Watson.

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Driven Round The Bend

Roland Watson, our Scots correspondent, on socialist housing and roads.

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A Burnt Offering

Roland Watson on foot and mouth disease, and the pyres of cattle sacrificed to the god of the State.

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