The Minarchist Asks Whitehall To Tidy And Leave

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Three Things, Quietly, Then Home

Three Things, Quietly, Then Home

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political far right and libertarian frontier.

The Minarchist believes the state should do approximately three things, all of them quietly, and then go home. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, files these field notes on the Minarchist mindset, with help from the Adam Smith Institute and the Cato Institute.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Minarchist In The Wild

  1. Has explained, at length, that the night-watchman state is also, structurally, a romance.
  2. Refers to the police, the courts and national defence as the holy three.
  3. Believes any other ministry is, structurally, a soft mistake.
  4. Has a fantasy in which Whitehall is rented out by Tuesday.
  5. Refers to public health campaigns as the long lecture.
  6. Considers a regulator that does not regulate a kind of small national triumph.
  7. Has a binder of Robert Nozick essays.
  8. Refers to taxation the way some men refer to a slightly painful immunisation.
  9. Believes any state benefit is a kind of soft handcuff.
  10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to non-aggression.
  11. Refers to the BBC as the licence-fee company.
  12. Considers any government website over five pages a small ethical event.
  13. Has a soft spot for jury trials and a harder one for property law.
  14. Refers to public goods as the very narrow cake.
  15. Believes the cure for any social problem is, structurally, a contract.
  16. Has a fantasy in which the welfare state is replaced by a friendship rota.
  17. Refers to public-private partnerships as the soft compromise we should not be making.
  18. Considers any new public agency a slow, polite mistake.
  19. Has explained that he is not anti-state, he is anti-everything-the-state-currently-does.
  20. Believes the perfect government is one with a clean desk and a small budget.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meetup with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat