Tag Archives: UK
Thoughts on the first UK leaders debate
Note – If you have not watched the debate, there are spoilers in this blog post, if you do not wish to have this spoiled for you, please watch the debate first and then read my blog post on it. I had just got around to watching the first televised debate between Nick Clegg (Liberal [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Society, Terrorism, UK
Also tagged Afghanistan, Britain, bureaucracy, crime, curriculum, David Cameron, Education, educational quangos, Electoral Reform, European Union, failure, freedom, Gordon Brown, House of Lords, ID cards, immigration, ITV, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nato, Nick Clegg, police officers, PR, Proportional Representation, sentencing, students, teachers, Territorial Army, Tories, Trident, UK election, Westminster 2010, youtube
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Free speech – How far is too far?
Following on from my previous post on the blasphemy law in Ireland, and building upon the recent events in the UK of Anjem Choudary’s now banned group Islam4UK’s threatened march through Wooton Bassett. I start to wonder how important is free speech to us in actuality? Is it only when peoples free speech doesn’t our [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Ireland, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Society
Also tagged Anjem Choudary, Athens, Bill of Rights, British law, Christianity, Europe, First Amendment, free speech, Garda Síochána, God, Greeks, importance, Ireland, Irish law, Islam4UK, Israelites, Judeo-Christian, offence, offensive, Paul the Apostle, Public Order Act 1994, Socratic, State, USA, Voltaire, Wooton Bassett
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