Some time ago, I wrote a post about a favourite blogger – Jack of Kent. What I said was Firstly, he has a rare ability amongst lawyers: that of making complex legal principles and processes understandable to the layperson. Secondly, he campaigns tirelessly for one of the great rights: freedom of speech. Thirdly, he does [...]

Sunny ‘Liberal Conspiracy’ Hundal is organising a follow-up to 2008′s successful ‘Blog Nation’ event. Details over at Liberal Conspiracy, but Sunny asks what we’d like to discuss; below the fold, then, are some thoughts. In terms of logistics, I would make three suggestions. Given the layout, it’s important that each table isn’t talking amongst itself [...]

The British Chiropractic Association have, according to Simon Singh’s barrister, served a notice of withdrawal. Brief note from the excellent Jack of Kent, doubtlessly with more to follow, indicates that the question of dollars and cents is still up in the air. I’d just like to add one thing: The British Chiropractic Association happily promotes [...]

“I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning among them was brought; …. that nothing had been there written now [...]

xD. PS – a little while ago, I celebrated my fifth anniversary of blogging. This is my one thousandth post.

Or possibly three. Or four. Anyway, some excellent write-ups of the encounter between Simon Singh (huzzah!) and the BCA (boo!) today at the Royal Courts of Justice are available from Jack of Kent, Crispian Jago and Padraig Reidy at Index on Censorship, and I very definitely commend them to the house. I want to quote [...]

The main link to which I refer is censortube.eu; Thunderf00t is on YouTube at youtube.com/thunderf00t; the Electronic Frontier Foundation is at eff.org; the Google spring clean is at productideas.appspot.com. xD.

From Jack of Kent – Paul Clarke: an anatomy of injustice. Jack of Kent does something very interesting in this lucid explanation of the situation. He shows that it is possible to agree with the initial reaction of the masses, even so the masses are so uninformed that their opinions are of little to no [...]