Today is clearly a day for me spotting online petitions. This one has been signed by Tony Blair and has provoked the following response from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection: “This petition is being run by an extremist group of vested interests representing a very narrow area of medical research. “They want… Continue reading The People’s Petition
Day: May 14, 2006
Liberal Drinks
Before I forget again, just a quick note to invite people to Liberal Drinks this Wednesday. We’ve had a couple of really good turnouts recently, so I’m hopeful this week will be a success as well.
The evils of liberalism
I’ve blogged about this before and I’m sure I will again, but what is Nick Cohen’s problem with liberalism? He has never spelt it out beyond complaining that reality rarely meets the ideal, but that is true of all ideologies, and yet he returns to the subject again and again. This week, Kate Winslet’s Number… Continue reading The evils of liberalism