Tag Archives: Civil Liberties

Us and them

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As I’m for the moment actually going into the office to work, I’m once more looking through the metro and two articles rather caught my eye, partly for the content but more so for the juxtaposition of what they reported. As other better bloggers have already commented on the individual incidents I’ll just link to those rather than adding my two penn’orth. Article 1: Devils kitchen and Big Brother Watch both nicely report on a man being prosecuted for “perverting the course of justice” due to flashing his headlights to warn other drivers of a speed trap – thus causing … Continue reading →

Make Room! Make Room!

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Guido has done a rather nice job of highlighting the hypocrisy of George Monbiot’s latest article suggesting that people should be “encouraged” to make sure as many people live in their house as possible. From his proposals I assume he’s recently discovered the works Harry Harrison, perhaps it was on telly over Christmas. So anyway I’m going to ignore the hypocrisy as that seems to be fairly typical of such pundits suggesting people be made to take actions they haven’t taken themselves. What puzzles me more is his idea of “housing footprints”, which he describes thus: “Your housing footprint is … Continue reading →

Talking about religion

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Whilst we’re on the subject of religion, I notice that His Grace Archbishop Cranmer has just launched a campaign to tell the state to mind it’s own business when it inquires as to what particular religious belief we may or may not observe. Now never being one to miss a passing band wagon and being keen on the state paying far less interest in what we might be doing as long as we’re not causing harm*. So as such I’m quite happy to plug His Graves “mind your own” campaign and hope that many other follow suit. As he so … Continue reading →