I like the Chicken Yoghurt blog. It is one of my favourite blogs. Its writer, Justin, is what I would call a principled blogger. He identifies his principles, and sticks to them. Some bloggers (naming no names) attack or defend particular acts or policies depending on whether or not the perpetrator of the act or policy is on the same side of the political divide as they are. Not Justin. Reading his blog, you get the impression that these are his views, and no-one else’s. You can’t say that about many blogs these days.
I’ve just been reading an impressive piece on the Chicken Yoghurt blog about Gordon Brown and so-called ‘British liberty’. The post actually went up yesterday, but I’ve been out of town, and am now catching up on all my reading. It’s worth reading in full, but here is an arresting extract:
As he begins this new chapter in ‘British’ liberty (as opposed that filthy foreign liberty) in the broad, non-specific strokes of a truly great leader, let us see what a newly liberated Britain holds in store for us. Fifty-six days detention without trial. ID cards. Four and a half million people on the DNA database. What could be more British than that?
It’s a very good piece, and it raises valid concerns about our hitherto taken-for-granted liberties, and the state of politics today.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:11 am
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