Peter Tatchell speaks in Oxford.

I found out today that the famed human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell will be speaking in Oxford on 30th April (Wednesday 5th Week), on the subject of ‘queer rights’.  Should be good.
Details here.

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Have the Fabians been reading Rawls?

Polly Toynbee writes:

In all the New Labour years, the case for fair taxation was never made. Now the Fabian Society proposes ways to start winning back the argument. It is too late, the society thinks, to win back IHT [inheritance tax - Peter] . It suggests a capital receipts tax used in other countries, where [...]

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And that’s science!

According to Iain Dale’s intensive research, the political party whose supporters are most likely to be virgins are the nasty thugs in the BNP.
Ho ho ho.

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Is taking drugs immoral?

These are thoughts I’ve had for a while, and have expressed in the past (though not on here).
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Libertarian blogger The Devil’s Kitchen has an excellent post up today, arguing that many currently illegal drugs ought not be illegal. I agree with him there. That ever reliable source Wikipedia tells us that the Serious [...]

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Lazy Blogging …

from me I’m afraid. Hopefully when I’ve got essays to put off writing more shall be written. Much the same correlation holds for Confused Conservative.
Anyway, there’s an excellent post by Henry Farrell over at CT. Of particular interest is his observation that (my emphasis):
As best I understand it (I am open to [...]

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New Coins!

It seems that the in-between term vacation is not as conducive to blogging as I first thought.  Hopefully I’ll get off my arse and write some more substantial posts soon.  No promises mind.
 Anyway, the Royal Mint has unveiled the new coin designs which will slowly be phased in.  I quite like them.  Cranmer doesn’t.

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