THE LAST DITCH
Link: Taking Liberties – Simon Clark – Home – Beware the sanitisation of public debate.
Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas, makes some very good points about free speech. Do read the whole thing. And while you are over there, why not sign up for a feed from the new "Taking Liberties" blog, which promises to be an important new voice from a broadly libertarian standpoint.
The link is slightly wrong- this is it:
http://takingliberties.squarespace.com/taking-liberties/2008/2/13/beware-the-sanitisation-of-public-debate.html
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Thanks, delicolor. I have corrected it.
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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