At 5pm, last Friday. America was winding down for the Bank Holiday weekend: blowing the tops off Budweisers, barbecuing hotdogs, driving SUVs into sun-drenched ball-parks, and enjoying the myriad benefits of daily existence in the most prosperous nation on God's green Earth.
There was a time, not long ago, when whoever wanted to use a news story for commercial purposes would actually ask the newspaper's permission. They might even pay for the privilege.
The release of MPs' expenses goes back to a US journalist working in the UK who put in the first Freedom of Information request. Here, in a personal opinion, Heather Brooke says behind what might seem like trivial details of moats and dog food is a fundamental democratic point.
THE British National Party is fielding candidates in all 75 divisions in next month's Essex County Council elections. The far-right party says this is the first time it has been able to contest every seat in a county council election.
She led a charge to restrict the word "terrorism," instead urging government employees to refer to the phenomenon as "anti-Islamic activity." She had been labeled a "pocket dictator," with some of her practices referred to by media critics as "truly Big Brother stuff."
Freedom is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret trials and imprisonment. The government will soon know about every phone call, every email, every text message.
BANNED by the BBC, ignored by his peers and ridiculed by the alarmist green lobby, David Bellamy has launched his own bold crusade to say the unsayable - global warming is nonsense.
(New York City) Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment.
Today, as you will know, on average every person in the UK spends approaching half their waking hours using communication tools like PCs, laptops, mobiles, TVs, radios, iPods and other digital devices.
This weekend I purchased another firearm. A Walther P990 DAO 9MM, with interchangeable grips, and 2 high capacity (15 rounds) clips,. Ironically, the pistol included a trigger lock.
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equality & free speech has not initiated any private discussions.