Happened to pick up a Daily Express today and found this article by Frederick Forsyth: …consider these words: “Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose but which will […]
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Brown: UK ID Cards will not be compulsory … oh yes they will
… for British citizens. Well, it’s a start. Now how to deal with all their other faulty proposals, plans, policies, treaties and laws? read more | digg story Follow up from No2ID. Oh dear, oh dear: you may not have to have a card, but…
Read MoreJack Straw: “Labour’s decade is liberty’s best since the vote was won”
See this Guardian article: First, the Human Rights Act. We really did “bring rights home”, as we said we would. At last British people have been able directly to access and to enforce positive rights in the British courts, rather than having to go to Strasbourg and wait for years […]
Read MoreAn “Aha!” moment
I just discovered Fabian gradualism. Put this in the context of the Lisbon Treaty and Hayek‘s “The Road to Serfdom” and things begin to make sense. The great ideological battle continues: Hayek shared his Nobel Prize with rival Gunnar Myrdal. The problem is, the combatants are in different places. While […]
Read MoreThe Death of Democracy
John Redwood puts it well. I have commented there.
Read MoreThe Lisbon Treaty
Open Europe have provided a comparison of the Lisbon Treaty and the EU Constitution here. It circumvents the fact that the original Treaty is in French and only shows the modifications to the two founding Treaties. There is also a guide. In short, David Cameron’s response to the Treaty holds […]
Read MoreHelping the homeless, the bureaucratic way.
There’s a homeless man I see every day, who sleeps in a subway. He’s pleasant and harmless. He used to be a promising chef apparently. People choose to give him money: he never asks. He keeps himself smart and clean, thanks to a nearby centre that opens in the week, […]
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