No place outwith the State
“MSPs back criminalising hate speech at the dinner table”, reports the (Glasgow) Herald HATE speech in the home is set to be criminalised after a Tory attempt to stop it failed at Holyrood. Critics...
View ArticleHow dare they not want to be rescued
Two days ago the BBC reported that the Supreme Court had ruled that Uber drivers are workers rather than being self-employed. With what glad hosannas did the drivers greet the news of their liberation!...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
Governments don’t oppose gig economy jobs because of a concern for working conditions, they do it because “real employees” are the most heavily taxed people in the economy, and the more of them there...
View Article“Adam Smith was on the side of the angels …”
The following is the text of an email that I and all the many others on the Adam Smith Institute email list received today, from the ASI’s Eamonn Butler: Today marks 245 years since the publication of...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
For centuries, women have fought for the right to bodily autonomy. Having an abortion is a medical intervention, and women are just as entitled to it as any other treatment. But by adopting a...
View ArticleCMV: the threat to liberty from mandatory voter ID is insignificant
“CMV” stands for “Change my view”. It is the name of a subreddit where people go to argue, expecting disagreement, as I expect it now. In the most recent Queen’s Speech, Her Majesty told the Lords and...
View ArticleInclusion and diversity is so 2020
“Chicago mayor’s decision to only speak to journalists of color is commendable, not racist”, writes someone in the Independent. The apparent erasure of the author’s identity was the Independent‘s...
View ArticleThe European Digital Identity is born
The Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age loves the idea: Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age said: “The European digital identity...
View ArticleA dastardly personal attack
I thought it was a photoshop prank when I first read Matt Walsh’s tweet, but this does appear to be a genuine Independent headline: “Rightwing blogger launches gofundme for AOC’s Puerto Rico...
View ArticleWhat our canine friends are owed, and what they’re not
“Your dog is alert, plucky and a fearsome guardian of your property. For all we know, without his services, you would have been burgled over and over again. Your belongings would be depleted and the...
View ArticleHow long will the doctors be in loco parentis?
Thirty years? Women of childbearing age should not drink – WHO How about forever? Face masks should continue ‘forever’ to fight other diseases, says Sage scientist
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More photos of the London Covid demo last Saturday
Last Saturday a mate of mine dropped by to see me, having just been at the Covid demo mentioned here earlier. My mate brought photos with him. You can see most of those he gave me here and here. But...
View ArticleStealthing
Olivia Petter has written two articles for the Sunday Times about her experience of being “stealthed” that have generated much discussion. She explains the term as follows, “What happened to me, and...
View ArticleThe treason trials of 2021
The Mirror‘s columnist Susie Boniface*, who writes under the name “Fleet Street Fox”, would like to see them happen. She writes, If you abandon your country to join ISIS, you can be stripped of...
View Article“He told me it was now his apartment because he’s an anarchist and nobody...
The indefatigable Andy Ngô reports a little falling out among Antifa comrades Sean Gabriel Lopez and Camillo Masagli: Mr Lopez, who goes by the name “No$hu”, tweeted at 6:35 PM on Oct 18, 2021: No$hu...
View ArticleYou have until Friday night to say what you think of the proposed ban on...
EDIT: The deadline for responding to this consultation has been extended to Friday 4th February 2022. Original post follows: This link takes you to the government’s “overview” of its consultation...
View ArticleNew Zealand as Neverland: where children never grow up
“New Zealand smoking ban: young to be barred from ever buying cigarettes”, the Times reports. New Zealand will ban young people from ever being able to purchase tobacco under world-leading plans to...
View ArticleWould you let him out of the box?
Yesterday’s Sunday Times carried a story to break your heart: “‘Life in a box’: young autistic man confined in hospital’s former file room”. The first thing to say is that the headline is clickbait. It...
View ArticleThe deadline for giving your opinion on the proposed ban on “conversion...
I wrote this post about the proposed ban on 7th December 2021, when the deadline for responses to the government’s consultation document was given as December 10th. The deadline was then extended to...
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