You didn’t need to cull my blog (Don’t Hold Your Breath). I do assure you, I am a libertarian.

Or is because I haven’t posted anything for nearly a year?

Yes, the latter got you omitted.  I note your regret, and will ponder how to correct things.  Your blog is still there to be read, even if not recently added to.  The same applies to The Wealth of Nations doesn’t it?  Maybe a sub-category for sleeping blogs?

As I was just thinking as I posted this, one of the major qualifications for being in is, maybe, simply wanting to be in.

Provided of course this is not accompanied by a futile attempt to persuade me to mean something different by “libertarian”.

I’m a “Blogger Q”, a Libertarian who blogs fairly regularly but only occasionally about politics.

A bit like yourself!

You missed Devil’s Kitchen. The ultimate in swearblogging! Tim Worstall also counts.

Well I had DK there as “The” Devil’s Kitchen, but I see that he just calls himself Devil’s Kitchen, so that has now been corrected and he takes his place among the Ds

And Tim Worstall is now in the list.

From looking in my Google Reader:

There’s the LPUK blog: http://lpuk.blogspot.com/
Is Frank Furedi a libertarian?
What about Free Market Fairy Tales?
Do objectivists like medworth.org.uk count (but the site is down, grr)?
I’m pretty sure the Englishman in his Castle describes himself as libertarian; yes, here: http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/007223.html

Also:

http://landedunderclass.wordpress.com

Grand writer, all-round libertarian and very sound fellow.

Excellent. I have so much reading to do!

Total Politics has a goodly selection of Libertarian blogs

http://www.lookingforavoice.blogspot.com amongst them

Cheers Guthrum

Found it interesting that you have omitted the personal blogs of the Leadership of LPUK - Libertarian Party

LPUK Leader - PJC Journal
LPUK Chairman - Lookingforavoice
LPUK Head of Policy - NeueArbeit Macht Frei

Any reason?

I didn’t make it either. I’d have thought having the word, “libertarianism” in big letters across the top might have been a clue but perhaps I’m not on your radar Brian!

No bigg

I am disappointed to be missed off the list.

All those omitted so far:

Please be assured that omission means nothing except that you weren’t in my much neglected blogroll, which formed the basis of this posting.  Many of the blogs mentioned above are known to me; I just hadn’t got around to adding them.  There is nothing at all interesting - i.e. revealing of any pov on my part - about these omissions.  Indeed, part of the point of this enterprise is to fill in such gaps.

Apologies for any grief caused.

The next edition, due Real Soon Now, will include all of the above.

Thanks in particular for all those LPUK bloggers.

What about The Last Ditch....

http://lastditch.typepad.com/

Brian old chap, I think you need to siddown for a few hours, not go billionmonkeying for a day or so, and do a little research!

It’s OK, it’s a noble effort and if anyone can compile the definitive list, you can, and indeed ought to. It’s part of your job!

PJC Journal is one of the best. It should not have been omitted.

I have just realise what a very good job I am already doing with this.

One of the signs that you are doing something very good is that people complain about how badly you are doing it.

If you are doing something insignificant, they just walk on past in silence.

So, many thanks to all those who are praising me with faint damnations, in among suggesting further additions.

As I say, there will be a second edition Real Soon Now.

Ta very much for including me on the list.

I’m not even sure that I count as a capital L libertarian, as they tend to major on what the government “should” or more likely “shouldn’t” do (which is much a matter of personal morality).

I’m much more interested in what a government “can” do, which is pretty much f*** all, really, given that there are 646 of them and 60 million of us.

So let the ‘government’ stick to the few things that only the ‘government’ can do (law and order, immigration control, cutting taxes, whatever) and the other 59.99 million of us will sort out the rest.

Err… What about the good folks at ‘Old Holborn’ http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/ Don’t they deserve a mention?

Just strolling through.

I wouldn’t expect to find myself listed, being very much a lowly backwoodsman, but I am in your blogroll, and a libertarian to boot (honest! I have the Gadsden Flag on my blog and everything!)

Of course, it’s your call - some of my opinions may be beyond the Pale.

TT

You are a classic case of someone who is in because they want to be.  The next edition will definitely include you.

Almost all libertarians seem to have some opinions that are beyond the Pale, according to most of the regular libertarians.  It’s who we are. to quote a cricketer I have been recently writing about here.  (Who he is is a bowler as well as a batsman.)

Anyway, thanks for the comment.

you forgot my blog Big Libertarian party banner across the top of it

And Neuearbeitmachfrei blogspot too

Can I be a libertarian blogger too?

http://www.illandancient.blogspot.com

Either I’m a libertarian blogger, or I’m doing it wrong.

Same Craig Murray I read so much about on Natan’s Registan?
Funny, how lefty liberals want to be considered libertarians now.
Gee, Brian, you ARE becoming a cool kid! Everyone and his ex-Ambassador to Uzbekistan wants to be your friend!

your friends, have crawled out of the woodwork.

The next thing you will have to do it split up your bolgroll into Libertarians, and er, ummm, “others”. I’m not sure you’d want to do that, but there you are.

I don’t know where the rest of that above comment went....

...but it said something like Brian has done a great job with this post, as all sorts of friendly people have not only shown that they read him, but have asked to be put on-side.

Do I count - The Digger?

I’ve only just started this one, Brian, but it will be a pukka libertarian blog:

http://towardsmutualbenefit.blogspot.com/

Tatyana,

You should read my blog rather than what Nathan (or more usually neo-con lunatic Joshua) writes about me on Registan.

Actually I am not a “leftie”.  I am not any kind of socialist.  I am indeed a libertarian.  Why was I so opposed to Karimov?  Go figure.

I just found this one and I’m don’t think it’s been mentioned here yet:  http://theappallingstrangeness.blogspot.com/

I try…

northbriton.com

I would still rather call myself a liberal than a libertarian, but the word is simply too misused at this point. In Australia the Liberal Party are in fact the right wing conservatives, so it is even more confusing for me. (In Australia, if someone says they are a “liberal” without further explanation, it means they are a conservative. If they say they are a “small ell liberal” this means that they at least like to believe they come from the tradition of Hobbes and Locke, but they probably do so only in a fairly squishy way).

Michael: Australia is a country upside down.
Craig: thanks for your reply.

Bella Gerens,
Longrider,
(Una)Musings.

And that’s before you get onto all the people who are libertarians but don’t blog about politics…

Thanks very much for all these comments.  As I say, I promise there will be a Next Edition, and a Next, etc. but am still pondering how to present it, and what else to say about this.

I didn’t expect Iain Dale to link to this.  Just did not see that coming.  And that has made this rather more of a public issue, so to speak, than I expected.  But, the number of comments does indicate that the question is an interesting one.  I think the key is the point about how this is not a list of the libertarian (leaving aside the definitional aspect for the moment) bloggers whom I, or anyone, personally likes, but a list of all of them, at any rate it aspires to be.  I think people are interested in seeing that.

Bishop Hill, thanks in particular for your comment, for the bloggers, and for the other point you make.

I think the issue of people who are libertarian but who don’t go on about it is particularly interesting.  I am very interested in such people, although if I list them, I should say that they don’t do politics.  As has been pointed out, I am somewhat this way inclined myself.

There is something rather odd about people who think politics is way too important banging on only about ... politics.

You can count me in if you’re still counting.
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