If my wife were to start verbally abusing me every chance she got I hope that the consequence of that would be a divorce. It's impossible to have completely free speech with zero consequences. O… (View Post)

Part of the reason things look unlikely to improve in the medium term is that Britain is currently selecting politicians on the basis of their ability to win pissing contests on twitter. It's wh… (View Post)

Well, partly, people are unhappy about the status quo in different ways, so doing something involves upsetting people. Stasis is easier. Secondly, the political class have a large dose of learned hel… (View Post)

Argh. How do we keep the benefits from the internet and cut out the negatives? (View Post)

This is the thing. The remedy to this is relatively simple and modest. Put clarifications of the ECHR into statute law when deemed necessary. The recent declaration on the interpretation of the ECHR,… (View Post)