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Day 15 June, 2008

How the New Zealand media breeds ignorance

The other day I pos­ted an example of how the Amer­ican media breeds ignorance.

Today No Right Turn points to an example of New Zeal­anders being sub­jec­ted to much the same thing.

Labour not laughing at David Davis now

It’s the unrep­res­ent­at­ive nature of single-winner elect­oral sys­tems, like Britain’s first past the post, that leads one into some­times sup­port­ing people you wouldn’t oth­er­wise support.

And it’s with this in mind that I find myself sup­port­ing con­ser­vat­ive MP David Davis, who has embarked on a cam­paign against the “relent­less erosion of civil liber­ties in Britain”.