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“Right-wing” feminism
Laurie Penny at Liberal Conspiracy has a report on a successful protest held at the Stonewall awards which had nominated Julie Bindel for “Journalist of the Year” (don’t worry, she didn’t win). Bindel’s comments against transsexuals remind us that even radical lesbians beneath a Guardian masthead can be surprisingly bigoted […]
Is kink the new canary in the coal mine?
Guy Herbert of NO2ID has a short post on Samizdata highlighting the government’s fresh assault on civil liberty: free political expression on the internet. This is, of course, a natural development after successfully implementing the Dangerous Pictures Act. The more intelligent amongst our government and bureaucracy are probably aware that […]
.co.uk to be nationalised?
The net could be closing in! The Register reports that the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), whose value in promoting business generally seems fairly opaque, has written to the not-for-profit company Nominet, asking it to justify its independence. The question should be reversed. What justification is there […]
Not a victim, not a perpetrator
Last weekend, the Libertarian Alliance conference featured one particularly broad platform offering three perspectives on liberty, ranging from the arch-conservative Sean Gabb to the leftwing James Panton. The discussion revealed plenty of healthy disagreement on the proper future of liberty in the United Kingdom but there was a surprising level […]
Justice oppose “disproportionate interference”
Leading human rights lobby group Justice has added its voice the the long list of people concerned about the reached of the proposed "extreme image" laws. Justice are concerned about the premise behind the law and say the "over-inclusive definition" may constitute a disproportionate interference with the right to free […]