Link of the Day – Progressive Vision

In the public houses, coffee houses of London … punctuating these dirt-ridden, darkened, perilous, labyrinthine streets of our palpitating urban heart … amid plotting journalists, government spies and pickpocketing street urchins … people often approach me, causing me to flinch and jolt away in fear! Agh! This is it! My time! My time! I will die for my beliefs! But wait, they are whispering reassurances, it is merely some harmless Jacobin. Yes, yes, good Sir, I would like an ale, thank thee.

Then they say, these people who approach me, they say:

“Julian H, your blog is a wonderment and I shall kiss your pointy leather shoes.”

They continue:

“Even though you are too rubbish to write regularly or upon substance. Why can’t you be more like that Mortimer?”

They continue:

“In mitigation, at least daily the links remain. Magical doorways to a bewildering, whimsical world of liberalism, satire and Stonch’s Beer Blog. They say Google is God, but this is hanging talk”.

Thus one feels bound to highlight, occasionally, these brilliant links to Better Places.

Today we would like to recommend Progressive Vision, a relatively new liberal think tank featuring Mark Littlewood, formerly Head of Media for us Lib Dems, and prior to that Campaigns Director for Liberty.

Heavily recommended from their site is the ‘Today in History’ function. Daily, and impressively without fail, Director Shane Frith sends subscribers a ‘daily update of important events in the history of freedom’. An example, today’s update:

25 March 1988: The Candle demonstration in Bratislava takes place against
the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

If, like me, you have a growing obsession for all things Česká (or Slovak) you can read more here:

Wikipedia - Candle Demo in Bratislava

Quite an interesting account from former Slovak PM is here:

Clickety Click Clicky Click (this is a PDF doc)

The updates are of course free, informative and entertaining and you should, really, sign up for them.

Class dismissed.