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Free speech and the court of public opinion: let the people decide

Thursday February 4, 2010

John Terry’s “crime” was not cheating on his wife, says Suzy Dean, but trying to gag the press using a “super-injunction”

Comment

Reflections on a free society - think about it

Wednesday February 3, 2010

The exhortation “Think!” is not just patronising, says Simon Hills, it’s all to do with bossing us around

Comment

Is banning the burqa compatible with freedom and democracy?

Monday February 1, 2010

We may not be comfortable with the choices people make, says Karin McTigue, but we must protect their right to make them

Food and Drink

The fat of the land

Wednesday January 20, 2010

Is it possible, asks Karen McTigue, for a single January to pass without the media falling prey to the urge to force us into abstinence of some kind or another?

News

Talking with the taxman about poetry

Monday January 18, 2010

Billy Bragg refuses to pay income tax unless the government moves to limit bonus payments at the Royal Bank of Scotland

Opinion

This new puritanism would drive anyone to drink

Sunday January 10, 2010

As smokers told you they would, the puritans have now switched their censorious gaze from cigarettes to wine and beer, writes Nick Cohen in The Observer

Motoring

Innocent driver admits offence to avoid cost of court defence

Saturday January 9, 2010

A company director has admitted a motoring offence he says he has not committed after becoming one of the first to be caught by controversial new rules on court costs

Opinion

If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened

Tuesday January 5, 2010

People meekly accept official behaviour, even if they might strongly suspect it is the police who are behaving illegally, writes Dominic Lawson in the Independent.

Surveillance

Huge fall in number of crimes caught on CCTV

Tuesday January 5, 2010

Figures released under Freedom of Information show 71 per cent fall in number of crimes “in which CCTV was involved”

Motoring

Motorists hit by higher parking fees and fines

Monday January 4, 2010

Local councils raised £1.9 billion from parking fees and fines last year, with some doubling the amount of money they squeeze out of motorists

Food and Drink

Bring in 50p minimum price for alcohol, MPs urge

Sunday January 3, 2010

Costs of dealing with alcohol abuse “overwhelming the NHS” say experts