Day: May 14, 2006

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…