Category: Current Affairs

The Register reports the disturbing results of a survey, suggesting that Brits at least are happy to swap liberty for security, whatever Ben Franklin might say.

Another stall-setting rant by David Davies confirms his credentials at righter than right.

Most of it is Tory-paranoia boilerplate, but it repeats surely the most stupid of all Tory policies, the repeal of the Human Rights Act. Apart from the obvious implication – in the headline of this post – it also is supremely pointless. Unless the Tories also want to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention will still bind Britain, it will just be harder for people to exercise their rights, because they’ll need to go to the European court every time. The Tories – they don’t mind you having rights, they just don’t want you to exercise them (unless you’re rich enough to afford expensive lawyers).

Prospect interviews a Jihadist from Manchester, and Metafilter discusses.

Tristram Hunt (author of the excellent Building Jerusalem) invokes Orwell in an excellent article in the New Statesman, on the nature of Britishness.

That IRA statement in full.

Businesses can now find out how they could save money by being green, through the Government’s Envirowise web site. Link via Sussex Enterprise

The Forer effect:, or, why people still believe in astrology.

The Sun on tolerance. Via Fistful of Euros

Via ePolitix.com.

And there goes the stable door: Luxembourg votes Yes to the European constitution.