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… Continue reading Introducing the Carnival on Modern Liberty (crosspost)
Tag: human-rights
Do you “deserve” your rights?
Anyone who thinks our civil liberties will be any better protected by a Conservative Government should think again. Speaking in Bangor (the Northern Ireland flavour) on Friday, the News Letter reports Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve saying: … there is “a rights culture†which is “out of controlâ€, not just in Ulster, but throughout the… Continue reading Do you “deserve” your rights?
Nine wishes for 2009 #3: The State’s assault on Civil Liberties to begin to reverse
2008 was the year in which the gaff was well and truly blown on the government’s relentless drive to have every one of us “pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered.” Starting with the data leaks scandals at the end of 2007, we had a steady trickle of revelations about how the Regulation of… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #3: The State’s assault on Civil Liberties to begin to reverse