… a petition for the Prime Minister to resign is the outright most popular petition on his own website: Magnificent yet terrible: how long must we wait?
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Hague throws rhetorical kitchen sink at the “decomposing political muckheap” that is Labour’s frontbench
William Hague once promised that New Labour would first be greeted with fascination, then admiration, then disillusionment and finally contempt. Speaking to Tory candidates in Cheltenham (right) he made the strongest and most negative attack on Labour of the Cameron era. via ConservativeHome’s ToryDiary: Hague throws rhetorical kitchen sink at […]
Read MoreAn end to boom and bust?
Courtesy of Graham’s pointer to Photobucket (that is, I did not prepare this, though I have glanced at the FTSE and it’s about right), boombust.jpg 835×516 pixels:
Read MoreFrom borrow and spend to an economy that saves and invests
George Osborne reacts to today’s budget:
Read MoreCranmer: Damian McBride resigns and Gordon Brown cowers
Whatever did the British people do to deserve such a corrupt, despicable, manipulative, deceitful mendacious government as this? New Labour was supposed to be ‘whiter than white’: it is blacker than the bowels of Satan. via Cranmer: Damian McBride resigns and Gordon Brown cowers.
Read MoreNow Chancellor Alistair Darling under fire for expenses – Times Online
Including a neat summary of the latest dramas: Alistair Darling has claimed thousands of pounds in expenses on his family home while renting out his privately owned London flat and living in a grace-and-favour apartment in Downing Street, it was reported last night. The Chancellor has on a number of […]
Read MoreFreedom, responsibility and the “New Left”
Many who are in power on the New Left today were students when this was written in Education in America: Meaningful freedom has always implied responsibility, and responsibility demands self-control. Self-control presupposes guidelines within which the individual attempts to live in accord with accepted and acceptable standards. The denial of […]
Read MoreThe Convention on Modern Liberty
The Convention on Modern Liberty took place today. Shami Chakrabarti’s introductory speech was passionate, as it should be in the circumstances. The complaints against liberty in Britain today included: British complicity in extraordinary rendition The long period of pre-charge detention Control orders Extradition to the United States without equal reciprocal […]
Read MoreConvention on Modern Liberty: “What we have lost”
From the Convention’s “Abolition of Freedom Act 2009”: One of the problems with the erosion of liberty in Britain over the last decade was that the public failed to pay attention to what was happening in Parliament. Laws that fundamentally challenged our traditions of rights and liberty and flew in […]
Read MoreTimothy Garton Ash: Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts. We can fight back
For 30 years I have been travelling to unfree places, from East Germany to Burma, and writing about them in the belief that I was coming from one of the freest countries in the world. I wanted people in those places to enjoy more of what we had. In the […]
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