Tag: Simon-Hughes
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A spokesman for Simon Hughes said: “My feelings – as usual – we will slaughter them all.” Quoth Mr Hughes: Although the race is close, the evidence is that I have a slight lead with the other two battling it out for second place. Good luck to Simon, and I’m really pleased for him if…
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Regular readers will have gather that I’m not only in favour of the party having more women MPs, but I want to see it take positive action on the issue. What I do oppose however is positive discrimination where it is not warranted, and simplistic tokenism. What therefore am I to make of this: Mr…
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A lot of nonsense has been written in the blogosphere about the smoking ban being “illiberal”. It isn’t. What it is is a perfect example of how liberalism doesn’t deal in absolutes. I make it a policy of distrusting anyone who suggests otherwise. For example, the smoking ban most definitely does pass Mill’s famous harm…