Orf we jolly well go to the Land without Liberty and a TV without freedom

Another UN triumph

A UN body again distinguishes itself: A U.N. General Assembly panel has killed resolutions denouncing human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Sudan after African nations argued the measures were politically motivated by Europeans and the United States. Lamentably, South Africa seems to have played a key role, if this report is accurate.

Pasted from Normblog

BREAKING ALERT!

Government 'Going Too Far in Restricting Liberties'

By Andrew Woodcock, PA Political Correspondent

An overwhelming majority of voters think the Government is going too far in restricting individual liberties on issues like smoking, smacking and fox-hunting, according to a poll released today. Some 71% of people questioned by ICM for thinktank Reform agreed that too many “infringements on personal liberty” were being proposed. And the poll suggested Prime Minister Tony Blair was even alienating his own supporters with “nanny state” legislation, with 62% of Labour voters agreeing too many restrictions were being imposed. Opposition to infringements of liberty was roughly constant regardless of age-group, political opinion, residence, class and gender. Some 70% of men and 71% of women agreed that “too many infringements on personal liberty are being proposed on matters that should be for individuals to decide for themselves”.

Pasted from The Scotsman

The BBC in Iraq - send Caroline (Maniac Depressive) Hawley home NOW!

Read this and weep for the loss of yet more integrity by the Beeb...

Still on the subject of the Beeb:

Link this 404 error page... and enjoy

Pasted from House of Dumb

Repulsive and wrong

Our Foreign Secretary progresses from supine to sick. The BBC reports: 'UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has laid a wreath at the grave of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.' A garland for terror and respect for mass murder. Who said New Labour had no continuity with British history?

Pasted from Melanie Phillips