The Convention Blog

Time for Magna Carta 2.0

You want to know where we go from here? We need a new Magna Carta. Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy recently said he wanted “an insurgency to take our rights back from the state”. This now includes our right to honest government, though I think we always knew that. The emphasis needs to be on [...]

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The “golden age of liberty” – A reply to Rafael Behr

The Observer’s Rafael Behr has written a wonderfully ridiculous column today proclaiming that we live in the “golden age of liberty”. Perhaps he was jealous not to have been invited to the Convention. For he complains that “The story most often told about modern liberty is one of tragedy, not triumph.” Most often? I thought [...]

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Who is in the Convention?

A couple of points. We don’t see what we are doing as creating a new “organisation”. The Convention on Modern Liberty is just that, a Convention. It is not a rally or an organisation. It’s aim is to bring together all who are concerned about threats to our fundamental rights and freedoms, even if they are concerned in different ways.

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