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A very good Fisk by Chris Lightfoot of Charles Clarke’s LSE Speech on the media and civil liberties.
Look out! There’s a SAFETY ELEPHANT on the rampage! ”; his (Clarke’s) basic thesis being that New Labour hasn’t eroded our civil liberties and anyway it’s only doing it for our own safety.
The speech is remarkable in [...]

A familiar trick of the bully is to accuse an opponent of the very vice the bully himself practises. So when the Home Secretary spoke yesterday of the “distorted” reporting of his security policy by the media, and the “dangerous poison” of depicting Britain as a sort of dictatorship, it would be unwise to take [...]

Until a few years ago I, like most English people, thought of myself as British. Being English was something we did in our spare time, and gave little thought to. How times have changed.
The Blair Government, devolution and the rule of a majority in Britain (the English) by a minority (the Scots) have all sharpened [...]

From Anne Palmer 20.4.2006.

Without doubt, one of the most important jobs of a Prime Minister and His/Her Government is to ensure that the Country is always ready, able and willing to defend itself. To ensure their military staff has adequate supplies and that the forces that have to use [...]

Writing in the Guardian Roy Hattersley takes those who ague against political correctness to task, he mentions the case where a 10 year old boy was taken to court for calling a classmate a “Paki” which Judge Jonathan Feinstein said was “political correctness gone mad”. Also the outburst of fictional TV detective Andy Dalziel [...]

A billion here, a billion there: pretty soon it starts to add up to real money.

There are two MSM articles that coincide with two separate themes this blog has referred to recently,
The first was in yesterdays Telegraph “There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998
By Bob Carter”
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the [...]

More from David Cameron’s speech yesterday Climate change is a huge and growing problem.
In Britain the three hottest years since records began centuries ago all occurred in the last
decade. “Our planet is rapidly getting warmer. The polar ice caps are melting. Sea levels are rising. Hosepipe bans in April. What more [...]

Not a penny more of public money should be directed at propping up Britain’s political parties. For 20 years they have conspired to reduce public participation in democracy. Now they are paying the inevitable price — depressed membership, reduced income and falling election turnouts. To demand that the taxpayer reward them for this exclusivity with [...]

Home Office Minister Hazel Blears, has stated the following regarding the police mergers and EU-derived regional boundaries (Hansard, Nov 17, 2005: Column 1428W):
“We have made clear to the police service that the very strong starting presumption is that any new force areas should not cross Government office regional boundaries. It follows that very strong arguments [...]

In his speech today, David Cameron gave two undertakings that interest me:
A future Conservative government will scrap unelected regional assemblies and give power back to local people.
and ID cards of which he said:
Labour’s plastic poll tax has no place in modern Britain. It’s an ugly monument to the waste, chaos and vanity [...]

This from a blog I read occasionally, I very much agree with the sentiments in fact I twice wrote to the previous Tory leader to make the point that the Tories had to find a way of combating a generally left wing media before they would start to make headway. I would however take [...]

From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy
In January the commissioner of the Metropolitan police got into enormous trouble for saying that he couldn’t see why the Soham murders had become such a big story. Like every other journalist, I marvelled at his [...]

This website was born out of deep anger and frustration at a political establishment which over the decades has increasingly treated the British public with contempt.
It explains how our democracy is being eroded - and spells out how together we ordinary people can halt the slide into bureaucratic tyranny.
For a brief [...]

Some figures on the amount of taxpayers money the political parties are going to steal from us are emerging, as reported in the Guardian “If state funding is to be designed to displace the large donations (ie more than £100,000) of the two main parties, the taxpayer would need to provide £6m in [...]

I see I am not the only one who thinks Cameron is loosing the core vote
Sir - I have voted Conservative at every possible opportunity. I did so because I believe in its inherent principles. I believe in the market and I believe in low taxation. It is on these principles that I will vote [...]

I was wondering if the MSM would pick up on Charlie Falconer’s interview in the Telegraph last week-end. When he suggested that “The right position for the Lords is that it should amend legislation to give the Commons the opportunity to think again but… then it should give way.”
Simon Heffer has done [...]

We cannot know if David Cameron’s decision to insult the UK Independence Party, on a morning radio programme yesterday, was a spur-of-the-moment remark or part of a considered strategy. Either way, it was a mistake.
If the Conservatives have a strategy to denigrate UKIP, in the hope of halting the erosion of their own vote, they [...]

Today, as the leaders of the Conservtive and Labour parties, meet to discuss ways of stealing our taxes, Dr North at Eureferendum comments on the Hannan article in the Telegraph. Truth be told all the political parties are clamouring to jump on the bandwagon and demand that we the taxpayer support them, why would they not, [...]

I have reservations about the new police force which has begun operations in Britain. The Serious Organised Crime Agency will not actually be a police force, Its members will not be constables but agents. SOCA Agents working directly for the home office minister, can direct other law enforcement agencies or commandeer their facilities, they will [...]