Trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty

An adage that we seem to have forgotten, on both sides of the Atlantic….

Is it possible to agree with both Hitchens brothers?

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.

More of this sort of thing, please

Ripper!

There is too much law in Britain if even the professionals can’t have it at their fingertips.

I guess the criminals were having a day off.

Gone but not forgotten

Death rattle of (a) theocracy

The more they raise the stakes, the the more inevitable their destruction.

Nasrin Sotoudeh

Pinafore your thoughts

Yes, I know.

Mark Thomas is completely hatstand most of the time, but he and I do stand shoulder to shoulder on the question of freedom of assembly.

Here is his take on plod’s new £9m domestic extremist tracking programme….