Month: December 2006

  • Setback for BBC and Jowell

    The BBC’s tax on TV viewers is to go up by much less than it demanded, according to press reports. The BBC asked first for an increase of inflation plus 2.3% per year for seven years. Later it scaled this back to inflation plus 1.8%. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has won an average annual increase…

  • Democracy May Come To Canadian Senate

    Canadians may soon be able to elect their Senators if Prime Minister Stephen Harper has his way. The Canadian constitution requires that Senators be appointed by the Prime Minister and serve until aged 75.  Mr. Harper intends to get around this with a law stating that only those who have won an election should be…

  • No Speech Is Free Speech, High Court Rules

    The High Court has ruled that a law that prevents political advertising on British TV is not in breach of the right to free speech. Britain does not have constitutional protection for free speech, nor a written constitution, nor a constitution approved by the people. Political adverts in newspapers and magazines are not illegal.