politics

Due to FAIL circumstances I was unable to attend the Convention on Modern Liberty in Manchester yesterday. Instead I listened to the day’s events via videocast. It has not been twenty-four hours before I see the following report in the BBC:

Town centre ban on groups meeting

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I eventually found a copy via Sign of the Times, and am reproducing it here:

Are such things done on Albion’s shore?

I need to mainline some of whatever fuelled this comment in the Guardian:

this government has done more to reinforce and strengthen liberty than any since the war

— Jack Straw