The Freedom Association was founded in 1975 on the basis that a free society can only be properly maintained if there is an understanding of the economic, constitutional and moral principles that can sustain that society. It identified a set of principles that denote what a free society looks like. Today these principles are more relevant to the UK than at any time for a generation and more

Are We Proactive Or Still Reactive? Two incidents on Thursday, the memory of one that occurred on December 7, 1993 and another earlier this week got me thinking about how secure, in a free and democratic society, that we can really ever be. This is not a commentary on freedom, because that is what makes this country and our society great. It is more a commentary on the fact that no matter how much...

British hotels are vulnerable to Mumbai-style attacks, anti-terrorist officers warn Who would have thought that a free society was vulnerable to hordes of maniacs firing automatic weapons? Rather more importantly, what can a free society do about such vulnerability without not being a free society? Might it not be better to suck up the vulnerability but remain

Sean Gabb http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc173.htm Free Life Commentary, A Personal View from The Director of the Libertarian Alliance Issue Number 173 4th July 2008 The Third Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, May 2008: A Brief Record by Sean Gabb I dreamed last night of the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum. I do this perhaps once a week. Last night, though, the dream was unusu...

Wibbi our plans for an e-enabled society were based on creating more freedom and not more fear? Along with freedom we mean good democracy, free speech, the right to private places and communication, and justice. Things that create fear and will store up injustice include mass surveillance, mass data storage and retention, and the erosion of private communication (even including legally privileged ...

This article argues that he is . If so, then this is a worrying sign. A hallmark of freedom is that a society should be free to examine its own past. And it should be free to research and to bring to attention the more unsavoury aspects of its history. Only by doing so can a country avoid repeating its mistakes.

At the Conservative Party Conference, The Freedom Association ran an excellent installation on the conference fringe called The Freedom Zone, a centre for free speech (and free bacon sandwiches!) with a great series of fringe meetings. One of those meetings,...

A little too much emphasis on progressivism (which is the antithesis of individualism and freedom) and too many examples of "free" this and "free" that (progress that often stifled freedom and did not advance it) but it got better from 1975 onwards...

Freedom House released their Freedom of the Press report for 2009 today. The report shows declines in press freedom in every region of the world. Here are the complete rankings. The worst offenders are all usual suspects, but I suspect the most attention will be garnered by the three countries that slipped from "free" to "partly free": Israel, Italy, and Hong Kong. Here's ...

The annual Freedom in the World report from Freedom House was recently released. I'm sure that all of you will be delighted to know that, according to Freedom House, we live in one of the most free countries in the world, ranking the best possible score for both political and civil liberties. The following is an edited extract from their report -- does it sound like the Britain that you live in? T...