Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

What is the point of Magna Carta?

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**** We have been regaled with the Magna Carta on its 799th birthday. And much of this has been to remind us of the document's seminal...
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Monday, 7 October 2013

Right-to-buy, property rights and the cause of liberty

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**** Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and prope...
Sunday, 10 March 2013

Human rights and the curse of laws

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**** The debate over the Human Rights Act and its parents - the European Court of Human Rights and the "Universal Declaration of Huma...
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Friday, 18 January 2013

Selling girls to old men - it's a shocking world

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**** And at times I want to scream: Olympic Swimmer, Ayouba-Ali Sihame, competed in the 2012 games as one of seven Olympians representi...
Friday, 31 August 2012

Bradford Council should pay for photographs...

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**** Rock snapper and occasional civil liberties campaigner Nick Pickles explains that Bradford Council is using 'licensing' to g...
Thursday, 19 January 2012

Some thoughts on toll bridges and copyright

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Driving home from City Hall this afternoon I listened to a sweet little interview with a woman who had bought a toll bridge. Grahame Pen...
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Thursday, 27 October 2011

It's not democratic to stop other people going about their business...

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**** Apparently Anne Minton thinks this is terrible (although I’m not sure the ordinary member of the public would think so): A defini...
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Thursday, 8 September 2011

A note on property rights

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**** One of those things about rights is that they don't come about because a kindly king granted them to us. This was the whole point...
Monday, 5 September 2011

To say "property-owning democracy" is tautology - there is no other kind

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**** OK, I know that the term "property-owning democracy" refers mostly to houses. And this allows people to write utter nonsens...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

Abortion: why it's not a simple as it seems to some folk....

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**** I used to think things were simple. You remove barriers to people’s rights and they behave like grown ups. And for most of us this is...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011

"Are there any vacancies here at the moment?"

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**** My wife and I were in Burtons yesterday looking (unsuccessfully) for a t-shirt. While we were perusing the clothes on offer a young w...
Sunday, 24 January 2010

Muslim leader calls for ethnic profiling.

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*** You read that right - in today's Telegraph it is reported the Iqbal Wahhab a "leading Muslim businessman" and Government a...
Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Second thoughts on a limited understanding of "the progressive"

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*** It is clear that, when the left use the term “progressive” it has a different meaning from the meaning most people attach to the idea of...
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