friday thoughts
What better way to round off a Friday than with a bit of blogging.
It's been a fairly successful week, work-wise - I had several discussions with people on amending the pilot version of my experiment and even, amazingly, made a bit of progress towards the next stage. There was also some positive news on a couple of issues which have been bothering me - for one thing the government agreed to drop the 'religious harassment' part of its Equality Bill, thereby admitting defeat on its latest attempt to crack down on freedom of speech, and also, support came from Stella Rimington, ex head of MI5, for the argument that ID cards will after all be useless, whether for fighting terrorism or any other purpose.
Needless to say there are still several things bothering me ... 1) the threat of a bill in favour of legalising assisted suicide appearing in the Scottish Parliament; 2) the government, claiming to "understand the pain and anguish" it would cause, still deciding to send paramilitary fugitives back to Northern Ireland without facing prison (other suspected terrorists just get deported to places where they'll get their human rights abused); and 3) the fact that I have a blog to write now, so I've got to keep thinking up stuff to write. Ok, number 3 is a bit feeble, but I'll have to tell you about Moltmann, Calvary, and Moriah some other time.
It's been a fairly successful week, work-wise - I had several discussions with people on amending the pilot version of my experiment and even, amazingly, made a bit of progress towards the next stage. There was also some positive news on a couple of issues which have been bothering me - for one thing the government agreed to drop the 'religious harassment' part of its Equality Bill, thereby admitting defeat on its latest attempt to crack down on freedom of speech, and also, support came from Stella Rimington, ex head of MI5, for the argument that ID cards will after all be useless, whether for fighting terrorism or any other purpose.
Needless to say there are still several things bothering me ... 1) the threat of a bill in favour of legalising assisted suicide appearing in the Scottish Parliament; 2) the government, claiming to "understand the pain and anguish" it would cause, still deciding to send paramilitary fugitives back to Northern Ireland without facing prison (other suspected terrorists just get deported to places where they'll get their human rights abused); and 3) the fact that I have a blog to write now, so I've got to keep thinking up stuff to write. Ok, number 3 is a bit feeble, but I'll have to tell you about Moltmann, Calvary, and Moriah some other time.
posted by cath at
5:35 pm
2 Comments:
Keep going, such ramblings are worth sharing. I also think you should have included in your list of things bothering you the 'Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill', but then I suppose the list could be endless.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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Anonymous, at 10:53 pm
The Incitement to Religous Hatred stuff is well up on the list of things bothering me ... i feel a rant coming on but i'll save it for some other time! Thanks for dropping by!
incidentally i've messed up the timestamps on these two posts by changing the timezone to uk, i'll have to try and fix that ... not that it really matters i suppose
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cath, at 12:00 pm
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