Back in October, Jack Straw demanded a ‘Bill of Rights and Responsibilities’. I anticipated at the time that positive rights would receive more emphasis in such a project –at the expense of negative rights constraining the power of the state. Straw’s recent comments in the Guardian appear to confirm this prediction.
¡Me gusta cuando calla, porque está como ausente!
Se below for an artistic interpretation of the recent Hugo Chavez - Juan Carlos love-in:
To be fair on Chavez, it must be hard for the chubby autocrat to suddenly find himself at a meeting were others not only can disagree with him but need not even ask his permission before doing so. I guess he just isn’t used to this anymore.
With just about everyone outside Sudan agreeing that the whole Muhammad-the-Teddy-Bear affair is crazy there is surely no need to repeat this. The market, meanwhile, responds in a predictable way: for an increasing choice of cuddly Muhammads see e.g.here.
