Labour’s obsession with the Tories’ friends – and ‘gay’ rights

Alex Smith on LabourList reports on a Liberal Conspiracy story that “one of David Cameron’s allies in the Tories’ new European group personally voted for a Lithuanian law that has been described as a harsher, more wide-reaching version of Britain’s Section 28.”
Amnesty has called on the EU to do something about Lithuania’s proposed laws which [...]

No room at the inn for smokers

Leg-iron wonders why bans work. Is it because people love to be nannied? Do people fall for the propaganda; the over-hyping of dangers like second-hand smoking? Are law-abiding folks generally used to being treated fairly and so don’t know how to deal with ridiculous new legislation, like banning the public from photographing policemen?
Why won’t people [...]