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Open letter to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Home Education

Friday, 5th March 2010 | Civil Liberties, Education

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Neil T I am responding to a report, from memory, by a home educator of a recent meeting with the APPG for elective home education, so if I have misrepresented the gist of what was conveyed I apologise . . .

We demand the presumption of innocence

Thursday, 7th January 2010 | Civil Liberties

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Neil T A Tory MP (but s/he could have been from any party) wrote to a constituent: “I do not personally see it as inherently unreasonable that parents should have some public obligation to record their commitment to and responsibility for . . .

Be made invincible

Thursday, 10th December 2009 | Civil Liberties

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Neil T How many undiscovered classics are there in the world? Well, I discovered one today that sends the balls and the badmen flying, and its from 1850, written by a Frenchman dying from . . .

Home educators give notice of refusal to co-operate

Tuesday, 17th November 2009 | Civil Liberties

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Posted by AliĀ  P Declaration to Parliament – Notice of Refusal to Co-operate This is urgent, and requires active participation by all Home Educators. Please read and forward to all Home . . .

Freedom is a hardy plant

Wednesday, 28th October 2009 | Civil Liberties

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Ali P The Declaration of Arbroath set the will and the wishes of the people of Scotland above the King. If he betrayed them he would be removed and replaced. It also affirmed the nation’s independence in a way no battle . . .

Succumbing to the Streisand effect

Saturday, 19th September 2009 | Civil Liberties

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By AliĀ  P When Barbara Streisand tried to sue a photographer in 2003 for including an aerial photograph of her beach front property in a publicly available collection for the California Coastal Records Project, the action backfired on her spectacularly. Public knowledge . . .