For avoidance of doubt I am someone who has drifted in and out of Anglicanism (currently out), but retain an academic interest in religion. However, my own interest in the euthanasia debate is longstanding, motivated by my disability, and my experience of how health professionals.

The issue with so many left- and right-wing “defenders” of free speech is that they are happy to complain when their right to speak out is broken, but will still call for restrictions on the rights of their opponents. If you draw your limit at “stuff I fundamentally disagree.

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The Online Safety Bill was conceived by the last government, and its failures were the result of decisions made by Tory ministers, but Labour MPs wholeheartedly endorsed it, and Kyle has staked his reputation by it. It is bad by design because it confuses three things — the

.@KathViner’s paper is of course correct to say today that poorer households are more at risk of overheating which in turn causes respiratory infections. But in 2020, while some of us were highlighting that locking everyone up may have disproportionate impacts on the health of

A telling line from the Financial Times. @peterkyle clearly sees examples of non-democratic states like China as worth following, it’s a sad day that his boss, who used to be a human rights lawyer thinks similarly. A ban on VPNs would make the UK in some respects less free than

Excellent thread on the disaster that was the Scottish — and broader UK.— response to the pandemic 👇.

In 1997, Labour actually campaigned against Tory sell offs like this. When I was wee, my dad and my sister were on the front of the South London Press protesting against Tory closures of local playing fields and allotments (I was poorly on the day so didn’t go). Allotments vital.

RT @silkiecarlo: NEW: The BBC is now reporting that information about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, UK rape gangs, and more is being censor….

RT @noxcato: No other Western democracy, including Germany, arrests as many of its citizens for criminalised speech. Spain is a far third (….

RT @noxcato: I thought surely UK, a modern Western liberal democracy, would not be arresting 30 citizens per day for speech crimes – it mu….

Like every other thing. Not even the @LibDems have opposed this.

A very good point from @liberal_reform

RT @silkiecarlo: Reminder of where the Labour “Opposition” was on the Conservatives’ Online Safety Bill - total harmony. The only criticism….

I now worry far more about governments outsourcing threats to privacy to companies like @getyoti — which isn’t even accountable to shareholders but has teams of marketeers telling the world they are virtuous and nice — as part of strategies to shore up the digital economy than I.