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It was Elizabeth Barrett Browning who said that “No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.” That right is now under serious threat for many citizens of the United Kingdom.

The Coalition Government, and specifically Ed Vaizey (right), the libraries [...]

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The government's ambitions for public service reform are hampered by a widespread belief that bureaucrats and politicians must decide on our behalf; that the way forward is to improve this centralised process rather than replace it with a free market system that provides choice.

We must [...]

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Approximately 490,000 jobs are estimated to be lost due to the effects of the Coalition Government’s spending review. About seven thousand of these are likely to come from the army. Whatever you think about these proposals for reductions in public spending (I’m broadly in favour), it is a fact that we [...]

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Labour’s surveillance state

On September 15, 2010 By

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Robert Halfon MP has once again been doing great work, defending our freedoms and civil liberties. He has put forward an Early Day Motion discussing the issue of covert surveillance by local councils, something that has become a major [...]

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We hear a lot of talk about the big brother state, and the excessive intrusion into our lives by the government. It's good that the coalition government appears to be taking these matters fairly seriously, and are committing themselves to reducing [...]

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