Friday, 4 March 2011

Dear Harold,

Various things to report.

1. I wish to thank everyone who has so far donated money to the
Libertarian Alliance. Thanks to your generosity, we shall be able to pay
all our Internet and administrative bills for some while to come.

At the same time, I confirm that the Libertarian Alliance has, for the
moment, suspended all conferences and lectures. To be specific, I confirm
that there will be no Chris R. Tame Memorial Lecture at the Liberal Club
in London. This is to be regretted, but is unavoidable.

2. In the past few weeks, we have published, among much else, the following:

4th February 2011 - "Guilt of Self-Righteousness?" by David Webb -
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=14518&action
=edit

9th February 2011 - Sean Gabb on "The Myth of Global Warming" - BBC Radio
Leeds - http://www.libertarian.co.uk/multimedia/2011-02-09-eco-sig.mp3 I
walked all over the Greenie from my old university.

12th February 2011 - "Brief Reflections on the Revolution in Egypt" by
Sean Gabb - http://www.seangabb.co.uk/?q=node/528 I thought this was the
dullest thing I'd written in ages. The Germans liked it in translation,
however.

15th February 2011 - "The Equitable Life Shakedown" by David Webb -
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=14643&action
=edit

17th February 2011 - Sean Gabb on "Are Ticket Touts Immoral?" - LBC Radio
- http://www.libertarian.co.uk/multimedia/2011-02-17-sig-tout.mp3 Ten
minutes of me with Iain Dale..

28th February 2011 - "Taxing Corporate Profits" by David Webb -
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=14685&action
=edit

1st March 2011 - "How Long before Christians are Actively Persecuted in
England?" by Sean Gabb - http://www.seangabb.co.uk/?q=node/531 This has
gone down rather well on the LA Blog, where Ian B's critique amounts to an
alternative narrative. It has also been read by unimaginable number on Lew
Rockwell and in The Brussels Journal.

I hope in the next week or so to give details of several other new
publications from the Libertarian Alliance.

3. During the last few months of his life, Chris R. Tame recorded a long
series of conversations with me. Many of these will need severe editing
before they can be offered to the public - or perhaps should wait until
those in his sights have joined him beyond the grave. But here is one that
shows Chris in a reasonably generous mood: http://www.vimeo.com/20392578

During the next few weeks, I will publish one of the books he left
incomplete when he died. It will run to about 700 pages, and will be
followed by several more. Thanks to Lulu, what seemed for a while the
impossible has now become a simple matter of a little hard work.

4. Could I possibly send out one of these bulletins without mentioning
either my gifted friend, the novelist Richard Blake, or my own new novel
The Churchill Memorandum? I might if I tried. However, the great novelist
L. Neil Smith - before whom even Mr Blake bows his head in envy and
respect - has just published a most generous review of The Churchill
Memorandum. You can read this here:
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2011/tle608-20110220-10.html

5. I do keep mentioning our new website. This will, I assure you, be
inconceivably lush when finished. Just take a look at mine to see what we
have in mind. However, nearly a thousand publications, which exist in two
formats, and a massively ambitious architecture, mean that the html/css
site that I created in 2000, and have been playing with ever since, will
not yet be presented to any online museum of quaint survivals from the
1990s. At the least, we shall be running both sites in tandem for months.
I make no promises, but do expect to unveil something within the next
fortnight.

Best wishes,

Sean


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Sean Gabb
Director, The Libertarian Alliance (Carbon Positive since 1979)
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Wikipedia Entry: http://tinyurl.com/23jvoz

What would England and the world have been like in 1959 if there had been
no Second World War? For one possible answer, read Sean Gabb's new novel
"The Churchill Memorandum". If you like Bulldog Drummond and Biggles and
the early James Bond, this will be right up your street:
http://tinyurl.com/39lpade. Don't be frightened of the TinyURL - the
original is just too long for a sig file.