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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
By Max Tatton-Brown Jan 3, 2012

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
By Max Tatton-Brown Jul 31, 2010

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
By Max Tatton-Brown Oct 23, 2009

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
By Max Tatton-Brown Sep 30, 2009

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