Hmmmm. Most people looking to the Coalition Government to be the ‘greenest government ever’ will be scratching their heads at the announcement of a consultation on the raising of the motorway speed limit, and dismayed at the latest boneheaded Pickles brainchild, to waste £250m on weekly bin collections when there’s an infinite list of better [...]
My good friend Kiron Reid sent this as a comment to my post last weekend about the Edd Bauer case. It raises some specific points about Liberal Democrat Conferences, but a more important wider point: should a party founded above all on tolerance not be speaking out more to defend the right to peaceful protest? [...]
Some good news and belated common sense from Birmingham as Edd Bauer was released on bail after ten days in detention for the ‘crime’ of unfurling a protest banner outside Liberal Democrat Conference. While I don’t agree with everything Edd has done, I utterly defend his and others’ right to protest. I’m delighted that John [...]
Some great news emerged amid Lib Dem Conference last week. The BIS Select Committee’s third examination of the British pub sector in as many years concluded that as far as the pubcos are concerned, it’s ‘three strikes and you’re out’. The pubcos are of course based on a flawed business model built on unsustainable debt [...]
Liberals, of all people, should stick up for the right of people to protest in a non-violent way. Even – especially – when it’s being used against us. So it’s worrying to read of the denial of bail and the detention, with convicted criminals but without conviction, of one Edd Bauer. Now I don’t agree [...]
