" [The "Free Tibet" protest at the Olympic procession in London was] cartoon politics; it was about avoiding serious debate and instead taking refuge in the warm and moist-feeling arena of super-simplistic moral condemnation. " Yep, sounds right. When will people stop being so smug, please? It's getting boring.
Now wouldn't it be nice if there was a law forcing our parliamentary representatives to actually read the laws they blithely pass before, well, passing them? This site could help. I think it would work marvellously as a rider...