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Month: January 2009

  • Telegraph brands Christians as objectively anti-human

    What the hell is Alex Singleton going on about? He has taken Christian Aid to task for using the slogan “We stand for humanity” on the grounds that it doesn’t “fit with the brand name.” Now, it happens that I’m an atheist-pantheist-rationalist-secularist-humanist-whateverthemoodtakesmeist (I think that just about sums it up), but the last – the…

  • You are all individuals! (Obamamania)

    I didn’t watch Obama’s inauguration this evening. Instead, I sat on the bus reading the coverage on Twitter. For some reason, reading all these excited 140-character messages about Obama bigging up the atheists and getting down with the gays (or possibly not) – interspersed with irrelevancies – reminded me quite a lot of this:

  • Introducing the Carnival on Modern Liberty (crosspost)

    Another day, another crosspost. I will just add a link to this story about the Government attempting to stop the Welsh Assembly from publishing its own expenses – even if I had time to blog about this I couldn’t as words fail me. Much as I support the Convention on Modern Liberty, I am very…

  • URGENT – Help us to stop the plot to conceal MPs’ expenses (crosspost)

    I have crossposted this message from here and would urge people to do the same. More to the point, I’d urge them to carry out the action – we only have until Thursday! Dear friend, Today I had intended to write to you to encourage you to take part in the Convention on Modern Liberty,…

  • Why extending copyright on recordings is a FAIL

    The Open Rights Group have produced this fab video. Take five minutes to watch and then lobby your MEPs: See also: www.soundcopyright.eu