MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: Suzy Dean writes on The government's misogynistic attitude towards women and booze. Dolan Cummings debates Islamists on free speech. Manick Govinda draws attention to UK Home Office curbs on non-EU artists, and suggests a campaign to defend artists' freedom to work across borders. Mark Harrop is organising VIP Nights in pubs across the north of England to protest against the smoking ban. Michele Ledda's petition against banning of a poem from the school curriculum has been widely covered, and he has also argued on radio against the removal of Gary Glitter from the music curriculum. James Panton gives a talk defending freedom in Edinburgh, and Frank Furedi will give a lecture in London on The Political Significance of the Economic Crisis. 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… |
Freedom or Safety? at the National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh)James Panton will be a panellist at the National Library of Scotland's 'Freedom or Safety?' debate on Wednesday 3 December: http://www.nls.uk/events/ Freedom or safety? Panel event. The 42-day terror detention rule, CCTV and ASBOs – safeguards for good citizens or unacceptable intrusions and curtailments of civil liberty? Speakers debate the rights and wrongs of these topical questions. In recognition of the British Library's major new exhibition, 'Taking Liberties'. Wednesday 3 December
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The Manifesto Club supports:'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 |
