The Convention Blog

New video from Voices from the Crowd…

Some of you will remember the video produced on the day of the Convention by Voices from the Crowd – if you missed it, you can check it out here. The same team have now produce a similar video based around Avaaz’s Put People First March in London, which you can see on the website [...]

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Coming to a billboard near you…

While jogging through the outskirts of Oxford today, I noticed this striking hoarding:

Note the CCTV camera watching over its children like a vigilant father.

It turns out that this poster is part of a major advertising campaign launched by the police to encourage us to give informing a go. But its placement on an access road [...]

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Do our politicians understand what ‘freedom of speech’ means?

I’ve been surprised at some of the people defending Jacqui Smith’s refusal to allow the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to enter the UK to show his anti-Islamic film ‘Fitna’ (viewable here). Take for example Chris Huhne, writing for the Liberty Central section of the Guardian’s website. Huhne begins by avowing his commitment to free speech, [...]

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