Tag: Stealing your freedom
Democracy
Regular readers will know that this blog is supposedly a blog about our family life and occasional foray into home education. Previous political posts have been few and far between, but this week, I just don’t seem to be able to drop the subject. I was typing a long and fascinating response to comments below…
Today's more positive news.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Power to the people? The present government is in power thanks to the votes of little more than a fifth of the electorate. And think of the authority and intrusion of a modern British government. This is not a few elderly clerks pushing pens in Whitehall to send dispatches to…
The Observer | Comment | Henry Porter: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state
The Observer | Comment | Henry Porter: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state What I saw in Committee A was the triumph of Tony Blair’s modernity over liberty. Read it and weep. Then dry your eyes and do something about it. Write to your mp, registering your displeasure. Blog in the…
Dispatches – stealing your freedom.
On Channel 4 now. You can’t protest in Parliament Square, near the Cenotaph, without police permission. See the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. So you can get a criminal record for reading out the names of the dead from the Iraq war, mark 2. Cimran Khan is (probably) on a database somewhere for…