Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Inequality gets royal consent

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Today the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill got royal assent and passed into law. If you want to read lots of happy articles singing this as a great triumph, I suggest you ask a search engine or elsewhere – I’m going to piss in everyones cornflakes. Though before I do that I would like to wish well to all the same sex couples for whom this is actually important. I’ll also ask those that campaigned for equality: 1) Why did you settle for inequality? 2) Why do you want the state involved at all? Now on with the pissing. A … Continue reading →

Here comes the nudge

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I muttered yesterday about how the Welsh assembly had decided we no longer owned our own bodies (at least not once dead) and that they could just help themselves to our organs, unless they somehow knew we’d said that they couldn’t. Well here comes the “nudge” for the rest of. If you’re not a registered donor, on a database not just carrying a card then to the back of the queue for you if you need a transplant yourself. The telegraph is reporting that the NHS would like to push non-donors to the back of the transplant queue to encourage … Continue reading →

Taxation and organ snatching

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I’m not going to say anything new at all in this post, which won’t come as much of a shock to anyone who’s read much of what I write here. But recent news has given me an excuse to pull a few things together and to rant about the picture you can see at the top of this post. Mar Carlin is/was a popular comedian and commentator or so I’m informed, certainly quotes attributed to him appear all over the internet attached to random pictures (often of a very similar looking man who I assume is Mr Carlin). This particular … Continue reading →