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Obligatory Wikileaks Assange blog

Well seems the entire blogosphere has some sort of an opinion on this one way or another. So like the trend following sheeple I am here is my quick take. A few points:-

Wikileaks

1. I hugely admire the work that Wikileaks are doing. The main stream media has largely (IMHO) abandoned its role of properly holding power to account. There isn’t that much investigative journalism happening, and much of the way the Press media operates seems to me to consist principally of moving forward the political agendas of their wealthy

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Crime and Punishment

Some time ago in my “5 reasons to be optimistic…” blog I suggested that it was possible that there might be some elements of the con-dem agenda that we would (whisper it) actually be quite pleased with on the left.

Not the economic class warfare on the poor that the con-dems are engaging in, nor the attempt to deconstruct universal education, nor for that matter most of their public policy agenda. But where they do seem to have stolen a march is in terms of the Liberty agenda.

I agree whole heartedly

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