Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Published on
8 December 2010

The Long Arm of European Law

From a guest blogger: One of the most surprising decisions of the new Coalition government has been its choice to opt-in to the new European Investigation Order (EIO) proposed by the European Union (EU). This directive would replace the current system of mutual legal assistance (MLA) with a system whereby one member state can require […]

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Published on
10 November 2010

The Rise of the New Puritanism

What connects the Puritans and Professor David Nutt, the former government advisor who recently called for a radical rethink of state policy on drugs?  Not all that much, you might think, but read on. Twenty-first century folk love new things.  We have the ‘new right’, New Labour, the ‘new atheists’, and ‘the new politics’.  Yet […]

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Published on
21 September 2010

Will the Pope Make Britain Sit Up and Think?

Conservative Party Co-Chairman Baroness Warsi was reported last week to have pledged that the Coalition Government will ‘restore faith to the heart of Britain’. Her comments came on the eve of the first ever State Visit by a reigning Pope to Britain. During his visit the Pope spoke strongly on several occasions about the role […]

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Published on
28 April 2010

Three New, Interesting Articles

Science Versus Religion? The Insights and Oversights of the ‘New Atheists’ — Brad S. Gregory The assertion of the ‘New Atheists’ that the natural sciences somehow oppose all religious truth claims about the natural world is false. These atheists mistakenly treat all religion as one. In fact, some teachings are far superior to other blatantly […]

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Published on
10 February 2010

Persecuting Home-Schoolers: A Message to the German Government

A most interesting immigration case in which a judge in Tennessee granted political asylum to a German piano teacher and his family may have dented German-American bilateral relations. The family in question home-schooled its children, which is not generally permitted in Germany. The parents’ determination had had repercussions there: massive fines imposed, police intrusion into […]

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