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The first day of spring?
Read more: The first day of spring?Bud, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.
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Yes, we can (Reagan remix)
Read more: Yes, we can (Reagan remix)Via ToryRadio: It is time for us to realise that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes… they just…
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Please sign Telegraph Sport’s petition to help save sports facilities
Read more: Please sign Telegraph Sport’s petition to help save sports facilitiesLocal communities are losing their sports facilities and squash clubs at an alarming rate. This can be stopped by strengthening a Government planning law called the PPG17. So, please Sign Telegraph Sport’s petition to help save sports facilities.
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On-the-spot points for careless driving
Read more: On-the-spot points for careless drivingThe Assault on Liberty continues: Thousands more motorists will lose their licences under plans to give police the power to issue penalty points for careless driving without evidence being heard in court. … Unlike existing fixed-penalty offences, such…
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David Davis warns MPs of erosion of civil liberties
Read more: David Davis warns MPs of erosion of civil libertiesVia David Davis warns MPs of erosion of civil liberties | Politics | The Guardian : “Oppressive” laws that erode civil liberties are passing through parliament unnoticed by MPs, supporters of a new campaign, the Convention on Modern Liberty, said…
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Timothy Garton Ash: Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts. We can fight back
Read more: Timothy Garton Ash: Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts. We can fight backFor 30 years I have been travelling to unfree places, from East Germany to Burma, and writing about them in the belief that I was coming from one of the freest countries in the world. I wanted people…
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The Losing Battle to Fix Gold at $35
Read more: The Losing Battle to Fix Gold at $35Why the G-word is taboo? Reviewing this period in gold’s history makes evident the extreme difficulties experienced by the monetary authorities in controlling the price of gold. The typical flat $35 line on charts gives the illusion that…
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FT.com / UK – UK tax-take to reveal depth of crisis
Read more: FT.com / UK – UK tax-take to reveal depth of crisisOn the tax-take and on the risk to the nation’s finances, via FT.com / UK – UK tax-take to reveal depth of crisis: A dramatic deterioration in the public finances is expected to be revealed on Thursday morning as…
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Terror suspects were tortured in Pakistan under UK policy
Read more: Terror suspects were tortured in Pakistan under UK policyA policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and figures in government, according to evidence heard in court. A number of British…