The Cynical Libertarian offers a healthy dose of cynical libertarianism, UK student style. (He?) sounds like an angry 20-something, treading his exasperated downtrodden way through the daily grind. What an advert for slow, grey and anally retentive England.

Blog posts

Cynical libertarian content is quite extensive and posts are proper essays. From train journeys where he lost his shoes, to train journeys where he had to abandon a trip due to a fire, right through to university interviews, comments on anarchists on trumped up charges, anti-MP opinions... it is all there to put you off ever stepping foot in the damn country.

Blog content style

The Cynical Libertarian writes like a student, ie he strings an argument together quite well and writes in an easy to follow style, even with his really long sentences. For some reason however, he fucking insists on dropping in the odd fuck word now and again. I personally don't care, but it seems sort of contrived. I am sure he fucking talks way worse than he writes, but the eff word is kind of lame the way he implements it, if you ask me.

Cynical anti-libertarianism

In comparison with the rest of the world, the UK is still the free-est country of the lot, in my ignorant opinion. But even so, after reading and then thinking about his observations, the blog does make you wonder what on earth is going on in the 51st State.

Allowing for the exuberance of youth, it does seem as though the paranoia about Government state control, as expressed by students from Christmases past, has slowly evolved into reality. Locking up a guy for having a cupboard full of bleach and weed-killer in the name of terror seems about right for a 1984 movie, but proper procedure in good old England? I agree with a lot of what the cynical blogger says, but as an old fart, I couldn't possibly rip into the UK like he does - it isn't worth my time wasting energy ridiculing such an insignificant country!

Blog side bar and bits

Looking down his sidebar, he should perhaps call the blog the healthy anarchist. There is a glowing and probably growing list of logos dishonoring such worthy peace-keeping institutions as the UN, Islamic Fundamentalist terrorist groups, the UK government et al.

For a more balanced view, or a broader view of the same material, it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a look through his blog roll on the right. Incidentally, Abandon All Fear isn't there, but it would fit in neatly - hint, hint read our AAF reviews!.

Summary

All in all, a good read, but as he doesn't post every day, maybe call by once a week to catch up with the Cynical Libertarian's gossip.

On a scale of 1 (crap) to 10 (ermazing) this is a 6.6 recurring.