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Bills and Acts of Parliament that should have no place in a free country
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The Children's Control and Indoctrination Bill
2025-08-02
OK, I admit it, it's official title is the "Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill", but I doubt that that truly reflects it's full potential.
Just as to those with a hammer, every problem can be fixed with a nail in the right place, so it is with Parliament: every problem is an opportunity to create more laws rules and regulations for the further entrapment of control within the highest centre of power, which (the New World Order Absolute being unaccountably still pending) remains the national state government.
The underlying assumption of course is that those at the centre of power are vastly more intelligent (because they have been to all the right institutions and learned all the left's dogmas) than the hoi polloi of the general populace (ie: those who escaped the education system with their wits still about them). Therefore by this simple modern equivalent of the medieval
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Online Safety - the All-Enabling Excuse
2025-07-31
The Online Safety Act has been a long time coming (since at least 2021 since you ask).
In fact it was originally passed into law in 2023, but has now been subject to additional amendments:
"As of 17 March 2025, platforms have a legal duty to protect their users from illegal content online. Ofcom are actively enforcing these duties and have opened several enforcement programmes to monitor compliance"
"As of 25 July 2025, platforms have a legal duty to protect children online. Platforms are now required to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing pornography, or content which encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorder content..." and much else besides.
So obviously, it's for the safety
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More "Protection" to Keep Our Children Safe
2025-07-30
We are now protected more than ever...
(20 minutes)
(NB: Whilst I also use NordVPN for mobile internet access, I take the view that the CIA etc must have back-doors into all VPN products, otherwise they wouldn't be on the market. If you need to keep your messages out of their hands, use snail mail and pray, or learn remote viewing and telepathy)
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Note to Those Within the System of Justice
2025-06-14
"In this case I have no care whatsoever whether my driving penalty points and fine are overturned; it has zero importance to me. What matters is that insiders within the system become aware of the abuse they have become enmeshed in, and the risks is poses to them personally"
The indefatigable Martin Geddes (assisted by his AI) writes yet another dissertation about the justice system as it operates in this country, this time addressed to those who work within its confines.
(see also The Trial from Appleby Horse Fair for background information)
(for those unfamiliar with Q - ...
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The Shape of Tyranny Incoming
2025-06-11
Neil McCoy-Ward delivers this in an admirably restrained manner despite the utterly unacceptable government overreach that he is announcing.
Do not adjust your device, but feel free to adjust your MP in an appropriately civilised and parliamentary manner.
(32 minutes)
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When the Law is an Ass?
2025-02-20
We may all have an opinion on the operation of "Human Rights" laws in our country, but as most of us are not lawyers, we may be unsure exactly why we hold such an opinion.
Quite possibly it was because at some time in the past we read a newspaper report about some case or other and wondered how on earth the judgement that was handed down could be justified. We remember our reaction, but forget the detailed reasoning that underpinned it.
After a number of such reports crossing our cognitive threshold, the conclusion remains but the details have probably fallen through our memory hole. Unless of course we are a lawyer with a professional interest.
Dr David McGrogan writing for the Daily Sceptic does us a favour by explaining the primary characteristics that make laws good law, and how some of those primary characteristics were defeated by the introduction of the Human
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The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
2025-02-12
This Bill, currently wending its way through Parliament, looks set to reach the Statute Book just as soon as their Lordships have finished with it and passed it on to the Monarch for his Royal Assent.
Given that the Labour Party has a stonking majority in the Commons, there will be no delaying its arrival before their Lordships.
Given also the Government's obsession with ultimately centralising all powers of any note unto itself, it's no surprise that this bill is long on rhetoric and very very short on devolution (after all, if it started devolving powers to, say, parents, there would be a chaotic free-for-all and the government would have nothing to do except twiddle its thumbs and dream of powers forsaken).
Let us in the interests of brevity quote directly from the government's own "Policy Summary Notes" document:
The ambitions of
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Net Zero Chance of Net Zero
2024-02-20
It seems reasonable to assume from their name that the Good Law Project is all about good law.
It isn't therefore necessarily about good climate science, but the Government in its all-knowing wisdom has enshrined its binding net zero targets in law, I suppose because that's the only thing they know how to do.
Of course, that doesn't mean to say that the targets will actually be met, but there's a good chance that it won't be this government that's in place when the targets fall due and the lawsuits begin to fly.
Anyway, the Good Law project, mindful no doubt of the sometimes lengthy nature of legal proceedings, has shrewdly got its retribution in first and compelled the government to disclose its assessments of the risks that may bedevil these now legally binding
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The Unfolding UK Police State
2024-02-10
"Under this law, authorities in London have granted themselves the power to surveil, harass, and ultimately imprison any British citizens they wish on similarly suspicionless grounds"
The National Security Act 2023 is now law (since July 2023).
One might be forgiven for thinking that we are at war, but with whom?
Perhaps not yet with Russia (although it does get an honourable mention) but that may simply be for want of trying, or perhaps outright incompetence. Don't encourage them.
Perhaps with Tucker Carlson? Certainly there are those who might hope so.
Or perhaps the EU is suspected of infiltrating its agents in a bid to
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So You Think You Know Your GDPR?
2023-10-20
Leaving the EU in order to reestablish our national sovereignty was a good idea at the time, also the prerequisite for maintaining our traditional freedoms, but it turns out that it only served to highlight the tremendous gulf between the people's idea of freedom and our government's idea of freedom - the latter amounting to little more than the freedom to do only what we are told.
We have seen a succession of Bills trundling through Parliament in recent times (not counting the Coronavirus Act 2020 - all 348 pages of it - how long would it take to draft such a beast? - which was rushed through Parliament as an 'emergency measure' in 3 days flat):
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The Online Harms Bill - Friend or Foe?
2023-09-22
Now primed and ready for detonation Royal Assent, this Bill (all 108 thousand words of it) has passed through all its parliamentary stages and will be law shortly.
Of course everything Parliament does these days is always for our safety, but what about our education, our ability to research, and our freedom of speech?
I'm not going to offer any assessment here myself, but one tenacious soul has already had it analysed by AI (ChatGpt) - one AI (automated) analysing another (the Statute Book) one might think. What did it make of it? Did it collapse in a heap, defeated by the intersectional cross-referencing, extraordinary tedium, and sheer volume of banality, or did it manage to extract its meaning andfurnish some relevant answers?
Happily, automated AI knows neither banality nor tedium, and can cross-reference til the cows come home - once it has all the
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"Energy Bill", or "Energy - Dictatorial Powers - Bill"?
2023-09-08
Another critique of the Bill - this time from the Daily Sceptic. As you might expect, it's sceptical.
The war is not between Left and Right, the war is between centralisation (empowerment of the few) and freedom (empowerment of the many).
The Bill wants to impose the elite's favoured "solutions" upon the many, and it will as always end in disaster, because they never choose their "solutions" either wisely or appropriately. Despite having all the best advisers at their beck and call ready to advise them, their solutions are invariably political and one-size-fits-all because without that - well, I guess we have no need of them!
They are behaving like zombies that cannot see or hear any conflicting evidence. Maybe we really do have no need of them.
If we find our own solutions then we will quickly pick up on those whose solutions work best, and these solutions will be copied because they work
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More on the Energy Bill
2023-09-06
David Kurten introduces us to the ramifications of the Energy Bill.
The devil of course is in the detail - "energy smart regulations" will allow ministers to set up draconian energy rules and targets that everyone must comply with without ever going back to get authority from Parliament.
This is dictatorship by statutory instrument. Including new fines and imprisonment for non-compliance. Without explicit parliamentary approval.
Worth watching.
(23 minutes)
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Nigel Farage isn't
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Politico Comments on the Energy Bill
2023-09-05
The Energy Bill is due for more Parliamentary debate this month, allegedly.
It's a complex beast, and apparently required in order for us to make up for the loss of EU legislation "following Brexit".
Is it all about investment?
“A delay on the Energy Bill will have a massive ripple effect on the rest of the energy sector... Why would you invest in the U.K. when we don’t have an incentive package that matches the IRA [the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act] or EU’s Net Zero Industry Act, and now we don’t even have the legislation, maybe, to back it up?"
So investment necessary to reach "net zero" might be imperilled?
“The important reforms and measures it includes are needed more than ever after the energy crisis to help accelerate the energy
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Energy Bill
2023-09-04
Your energy bill?
No, "our" Energy Bill - Bill 340 as currently wending its way through "our" UK Parliament.
The Bill that would regulate seemingly every possible aspect of energy provision throughout the realm for many years to come.
Sponsored by both the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (now split up - see link) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
(Is there more to this reorganisation than meets the eye? I note that "Responsibility for national security and
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Furore over Precision Breeding
2023-04-30
"Precision Breeding" wasn't a term that sprang readily to mind last year. The uninformed may find themselves struggling slightly to disinter the proper meaning, which is probably why the term was chosen, in place of "GM but not really GM" or some other such verbiage.
Yes, what it seems to amount to is GM with a new label. Actually, GM without any label so as not to cause unnecessary alarm to the shopper. Because it's not supposed to be as bad as GM, it's not supposed to need any special consumer labelling. We don't need to worry our poor little heads about it.
Of course it's not the same as GM, otherwise it would need labelling, it's just GM that could have been (but wasn't) produced by selective breeding, using natural techniques such as cross-breeding and selection that have been practised for years. So that's all right then?
Well, maybe, maybe not. As so often it comes down to
(a) The characteristics
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When is GMO not GMO? When it's a "Precision Bred Organism"
2023-03-29
The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 is now law in the UK.
Following a public consultation from 7 January to 17 March 2021 (Covid notwithstanding), the government has published its response, plus a summary of the responses received (download).
"Defra’s view is that organisms produced by GE or by other genetic technologies should not be regulated as GMOs if they could have been produced by traditional breeding methods"
But who is to answer this significant "if"
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OnLine Harms Safety Bill - Lord Sumption Comments
2022-08-26
Lord Sumption hardly needs any introduction, but the curious may satisfy their curiosity here.
His contributions to the Spectator are almost enough to persuade me to subscribe to this weekly (but you can read the occasional article without a subscription).
In this article he explains his views on the Online Safety Bill.
"The real vice of the bill is that its provisions are not limited to material capable of being defined and identified"
"Harm is defined in the bill in circular language of stratospheric
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Bills Getting Too Much? These Too Are On the Way
2022-08-20
The Save Our Rights campaign group tells it like it is.
Never mind the gas/electricity bills (distracting as they are) - take note of these Parliamentary Bills, in the pipeline.
These are in addition to other highly dubious Bills already signed into law, such as the UK - Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill 2019-21.
None of them enhance our freedoms, all of them compromise them.
We are under progressive attack by "our own" government.
Where is the popular demand for these
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GDPR RIP - Long Live the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
2022-08-04
The UK government has a woeful track record of introducing and passing Bills which disrespect the freedom of the people and the integrity of the sovereignty of the people.
But the train of new Bills has more carriages than we thought.
Next up - an attack on the (already cumbersome) Data Protection rules (GDPR) - now to be replaced by the UK Data Reform Bill.
"Under these proposals Government will grant itself regulatory powers to rewrite the law, and compel private businesses to share personal data they hold about you with the State and law enforcement authorities"
ORG Open Rights Group have had a
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