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Tidying Parliament Square

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Lots of other people have already commented on the arrest of Brian Haw during the “tidy up” of Parliament Square – as Iain Dale would have it. From what details have been reported it seems he was arrested not for being there but for not allowing the police to search his camp before the state opening of parliament. Which of course may be a pretext and it’s not clear just how the police went about it, but it does make things slightly less clear cut… except. It was surely within the police’s capability to just hold him out of the … Continue reading →

Everybody Research the Holocaust Day

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Hot on the heels of the First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day comes… Everybody Research the Holocaust Day. This it seems is a response from someone who got a teense upset about people drawing pictures of Mohammad (and to be fair many of them mine included really weren’t great works of art). However as Harry’s place has a plan: “Now it seems to me that a bit of lesson in free speech is very much in order here, so if its an ‘Everybody Research the Holocaust Day’ that the members of this Facebook group want then let’s give them exactly … Continue reading →

How they are related

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So back to the purple brigade, and many many thanks to Woman on a Raft for supplying me with some of this information (see comments here and here). I was getting quite confused as to how all the main players were related so I put together a bit of a family tree to try to make sense of it all. All of the information is in the public domain I’m just trying to put it together – in the spirit of our new open and transparent politics. Just to try to explain that a bit the dotted lines from BlueStateDigitial … Continue reading →