Now, yes, in one sense I’m anti-union. I don’t see why one form of voluntary association should be legally privileged over another. In another sense I’m very decidedly pro-union. Freedom of association is as much a necessary (but not sufficient) bedrock of a free society as is freedom of speech. So if the Brothers and sisters

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. - William Gladstone...

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

I picked up this story a little late: a company called the Global Internet Freedom Consortium offers VPN’s and kindred software to get around China’s net nanny. Then they collect data on their users and sell it for personalized advertising....

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference last weekend. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank

OK. So a young lady called Feng Yangyan, who is no better than she ought to be, hires a handsome fellow with whom to lose her virginity and posts a video of the event on the Chinese internet. The story...

How many Freedom of Information Act requests do you think the Obama administration denied in the 2009 fiscal year? I know it’s kind of a stab in the dark, but have a go. 100,000? No... 300,000? That wouldn’t be unreasonable,...

The best story of yesterday? Andrew Sullivan picked up this, from the Texas-Freedom Network's live-blog on a meeting held by the Texas Board of Education to revise its curriculum: 9:30 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar... wants to drop the reference...

Lib Dem Voice launched our new website – How Liberal / Authoritarian is your MP? – at the party’s spring conference on Friday. LDV has identified 10 key votes from the 2005-10 Parliament – ranging from ID cards and freedom of speech to freedom of information and trial without jury – in order to rank