Day: May 14, 2006
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Simon Wright links to a cross-EU campaign that people of all political opinions can, surely, unite behind? A petition to scrap the monthly EU Parliament sojourn to Strasbourg. Having worked for an MEP, I know how disruptive this ridiculous system is, and quite how much unneccessary stress it causes. It is bad enough for MEPs…
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Comment spam is getting to be increasingly bizarre, with these two gems among the latest dross I’m having to delete: Tim suggests that what’s special about Tom Watson’s blog is that he’s the first politician to use a blog to tell us what he really thinks instead of just telling us what’s in his diary.…