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Is it possible to agree with both Hitchens brothers?

8 Mar

Today being a bit of a slow news day election-wise, by the look of the front pages of the Telegraph….

….and The Groan….

I would like to draw your attention to two newly added quotations from the brothers Hitchens in my sidebar (down there, on the right somewhere).

I am putting together a more detailed discussion of this question, which I will post quite soon, but I’d be interested in receiving readers’ comments.

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Arrest me, but I won’t come (or go) quietly

4 Mar

In solidarity with His Grace, Archbishop Cranmer, whose religious beliefs I do not share, but whose trenchant support for free speech I applaud wholeheartedly, I publish this….

….and challenge the Crown Prosecution Service to do their worst.

“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. In such a country as this they are of all bad things the worst, worse by far than anywhere else; and they derive a particular malignity even from the wisdom and soundness of the rest of our institutions.” Edmund Burke, Bristol, 1780

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