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Free Speech Has Turned a Corner

[https://i0.wp.com/www.genderacrossborders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/silence1.jpg] Last weekend, we’d nothing planned for the Sunday so the girlfriend and I decided to head over to Hyde Park to deride the Winter Wonderland then find something to do on Foursquare. Eventually we settled on

Knowledge and Power

This is as close to a ‘reblog’ as I’m likely to get- advice from a chap called Daniel Ellsberg to a young Henry Kissinger upon him receiving his first top secret clearances. I think it’s one of the most important things you could ever remember when scrutinising the

Griffin vs the Chimera of Society

Like many of you, I was sucked in by the #bbcqt activity last night in a manner that 2 Screen would surely be proud of. However, I couldn’t help but think this. Tweetminster measured 12.49 #bbcqt tweets per second by the end of the programme, a phenomenal volume

Why didn't The Sun switch to the Lib Dems instead?

Imaginatively, The Sun today declared their support for the Conservative Party [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2661063/The-Sun-Says-Labours-lost-it.html] after 12 years of backing Labour. But is this a mature approach in modern times? Does a publication have to declare its support for a particular party, drawing