Good for Fraser Nelson. It strikes me that he is 100 per cent right. The editor of The Spectator has announced that his ancient and illustrious publication will have nothing whatever to do with any new system of press regulation. He will neither bow nor truckle to any kind of control. He will not “sign up”. He will politely tell the new bossyboots institution to mind its own beeswax, and he will continue to publish without fear or favour.
I think the whole of the media should do the same. Stuff all this malarkey about the Privy Council and a Royal Charter. Who are the Privy Council, for goodness’ sake? They are just a bunch of politicians, a glorified version of the government of the day. We are on the verge of eroding the freedom of the press. We are undermining the work of everyone from John Milton to John Wilkes – men who fought for the right to say and publish things of which politicians disapproved.
Hey governments of all types would like to have a choke collar on the press. The commie mob running Australia for the last 6 years did their best to try, and like they did at everything but terrorist importation, they failed. Thank (place your choice of deity here) for the internet at the moment anyway.
Posted by: Jim Witt | October 20, 2013 at 07:46 PM
Slightly off topic, but too far off:
I looks like when you remove sample bias and apply the scientific method you get the results you don't actually want
found that children living with gay and lesbian families in 2006 were about 65% as likely to graduate compared to children living in homes headed by married heterosexual couples
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/as_it_turns_out_it_does_make_a_difference.html#ixzz2iGc9fNq0
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Who would have thought that an arts degree was not superior to 2 billion years of evolution?
Posted by: Anton | October 21, 2013 at 12:06 AM
To counter this free democracies were constructed with three independent pillars of government. The legislative and executive were always going to merge, the pillar that has failed us is the judicial.
Just as the government gains power over us by having us fight among ourselves, we were supposed to retain power over the government by having the 3 pillars fight among themselves. By allowing the government of the day to select judges and exercise control over the courts we have lost control of our government.
Government is inherently evil, it should never be allowed to go uncontrolled.
Posted by: Anton | October 21, 2013 at 12:14 AM