The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

So much for all the excitement. This, on page 11, is how the Sunday Times covered yesterday's convention. Pathetic. 

Yesterday's Convention on Modern Liberty was, in many ways, what I expected. The surprise – and the undoubted highlight – of the day was David Davis's closing speech. He was generously credited, by Henry Porter in introducing him, with having stimulated the whole event by resigning his parliamentary seat last…

Still liveblogging the Convention on Modern Liberty… In a wonderful keynote address I will not try to reproduce here, Mr Pullman set out the virtues he thought the nation we might have been (and could yet be) should have. He listed, courage, wakefulness of mind, modesty and honour. No government…

Continuing to liveblog the Convention on Modern Liberty, I attended the session called "Judges and politicians; who decides?" I wanted to hear an intelligent discussion about the separation of powers. In my view, that is the element of our constitution which is broken. However, it has not fractured along the…

My learned friend Ken Macdonald, the ex-DPP is explaining the psychology that leads those who begin every day with a security briefing into error. He makes the point that we, as citizens, need to make it clear to government that we understand that total security is "a paranoid fantasy"