Farage and de-criminalisation
Musings
On the whole, I am not a nostalgic man. The anniversary of the 2016 election cycle has made me realise basically everything about the world is (marginally) better than it was when I was a teenager. We now have top AIs to give us naked ladies instead of Brazzers and while anime and video games have gotten worse, movies are slightly better.
One of the very few things I do miss about the period in which I was a small boy is the existence of a genuine ‘civil libertarian’ tendency in Britain. When Tony Blair tried to introduce detention without trial, David Davis and the Guardian were both prepared to oppose this, in principle, regardless of how many ‘lives’ were saved. Health and Safety was a dirty word. Julian Assange. V for Vendetta. The Pirate Party. Concomitant with this more enlightened thinking was the fading aspiration politicians should actually give us the opportunity to do more things. There was still a very faint echo, on the Left, of the Roy Jenkins ideal that Leftism would actually give intelligent, educated adults the freedom to do more things; which made the strenuous demands of Woke slightly more palatable. What enamoured me to this way of thinking is that it was polite. It did not claim we had a ‘right’ to prostitution, or substances, it was a way of showing the State owed something to its citizens.
