Richard Cohen, in The Washington Post, is worrying for the future of the book and the book store. 'The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye', and so forth; and Cohen loathes Amazon,...

Last year saw the launch of the Freedom Zone at the Conservative Party Conference. This year the Freedom Association, led by the excellent Simon Richards, assisted by the sparky Jane Broadhurst and chaired by the redoubtable Roger Helmer MEP, has gone bigger and bolder by launching the Westminster Village Fete. The programme for Day One of The Freedom Zone - described as "the biggest and best even...

I tend to have a "half empty" view of the world - but even I do not believe that the British population contains no pro freedom people. Indeed I believe that there are millions of pro freedom people in Britain - and basically the British book trade was telling us all to bugger off, that we were not welcome in the book shops. Well we got the message - it is not all "the internet"...

Outspoken Tory MEP Roger Helmer warns David Cameron in his new book over what Helmer sees as the "leftward drift" of the coalition.

People may have noticed that it has been light blogging over the past couple of days. This is because it is currently half term. Apologies. In the mean time here is a rather quaint eye for an eye story from Iran.

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has urged the BBC to broadcast an appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee. The MEP raised the possibility that the BBC's national regions should be given the freedom to decide for themselves whether to broadcast the appeal or not.

The embed didn't work - Click here. This guy is called Brian Gerrish. He's a good speaker, and has an amazing list of documents telling a story which everyone in Britain and Europe should hear. Roger Helmer MEP is Chairman of the Freedom Association, as well as being a hugely popular Conservative MEP. Roger (who is well respected throughout the Conservative Party) introduces Brian Gerris...

The World Economic Forum now ranks Sweden as the second-most competitive economy on earth, behind only Switzerland. According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom (compiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation), Sweden offers greater business freedom, trade freedom, monetary freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom, freedom from corruption,

By Roger Helmer MEP David MacKay is a Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. He is an expert on renewable energy, and has just published a book with the above title (find it at www.withouthotair.com). His opinions on renewables...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has welcomed a decision by the European Parliament to support internet freedom. Ms Evans voted in favour of the proposals which state that a user's access to the internet cannot be restricted without a prior legal ruling. ... full story