Andrew Parker, the head of MI5, told BBC Radio 4 listeners today that the service could do with new surveillance powers to tackle the terrorist threat. That’s hardly surprising, according to the cynical view that you never let a good crisis go to waste. If necessary, you create one. We face a toxic combination. OnContinueContinue reading “All Washed Up”
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Is Democracy Legal?
The European Free Alliance is well worth following onFacebook. Especially this month, with the EU’s José Manuel Barroso demonstrating exactly why it’s time he retired. Barroso’s attempt to put the entrenched interests of Member States above the will of their peoples attracted a withering response from John Palmer in the (London) Guardian, one that concluded:ContinueContinue reading “Is Democracy Legal?”
