MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: James Panton gives talks defending freedom in London and in Edinburgh ; Suzy Dean has a blog on youth engagement; Josie Appleton will be debating booze bans at Sussex University; Michele Ledda's petition against banning of a poem from the school curriculum has more than 100 signatures; Dolan Cummings writes on how anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty; Josie Appleton is discussing cities at a conference in Moscow; Manick Govinda has produced a new London exhibition. New on the Vetting Blog: Tenants turfed out for refusing to fill in forms; CRB checking tooth fairy; Children’s authors under suspicion; Flats halted because balconies have ‘view of school’. Read on… |
Against further legislation on child pornographyJames Panton argues against the introduction of new legislation to criminalize the possession of computer generated child pornography on The Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2. Item begins 1 hour in:
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The Manifesto Club supports:Historians campaigning against 'memory laws'... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |
See David Hockney on this,
See David Hockney on this, on Newsnight last night ('David Hockney has stepped into a row with the government over plans to criminalise the possession of drawings or pictures of children which could be linked to paedophilia.') http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7436977.stm