And I'm doing all this while sitting on the sofa eating pizza. Yay! I approve of low-effort politicking.
I'm shocked (more so that I should be, probably) that the Times printed a piece from Philip Pullman on liberty, and then pulled it within hours. You can read it here. And I'm not impressed that I heard about this partly through Bloggers4UKIP. Strange bedfellows indeed.
Extract:
In a thousand ways they have led you to think that whoever does not want to be watched must have something shameful to hide
We want you to feel that solitude is frightening and unnatural
We want you to feel that being watched is the natural state of things.
His keynote speech at the COML is up next on the live feed, I think. Should be good, judging by that article!