Portentous comment made in the House of Lords, 2004, during the GRA debates.
Prophetic, given the
@MForstater
and
@WeAreFairCop
cases happening 15 years later.https://twitter.com/HairyLeggdHarpy/status/1049340616881180672 …
And it is not just that all this just happened. We are not allowed to talk about it just happening. The views expressed by these lords are deemed to be things we have 'always known' to be hateful, untrue and unthinkable. And no organisation has the curiosity to look backpic.twitter.com/TtYoQ8ViV3
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In fact - if it's like NZ the govt has been regarded as processing shop where things that cannot be outsourced happen. One of NZs best academics Prof Jonathan Boston wrote Anticipatory Governance to counter just this trend.
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I think the depletion of the values of the public sphere is a major reason why transactivism has taken hold in UK, USA, Canada, Aus & NZ. The Five Eyes partners. Looking always for external threat & inured to that from within.
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