My latest National Post column gazes into Britain's navel and sees freedom receding.
Even with a bevy of expensive image consultants, politicians just don't seem able to get it right.
You can listen to my conversation with Andrew Lawton on AM980 about the Magna Carta project below; it starts at 39:47. https://soundcloud.com/am980/andrew-lawton-show-march-16th-2015
A discussion of the Magna Carta documentary and other matters with my friend "Nick @ Night!" Vandergragt on 580 CFRA News Talk Radio in Ottawa on March 15. [embed]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2015/March/Nick@Night_March15.mp3[/embed]
This Friday I'll be in Calgary at the Essentials of Freedom conference organized by my friend Danny Hozack. If you're in the area please join Danny, me, Brian Lilley, Mark Milke and others to talk about what's going wrong and how to get it right again. Including (but you saw this coming) a discussion of Magna Carta and our upcoming documentary funded through Kickstarter.
Mark Steyn, "The One-Man Global Content Provider," just wrote a great post "The Field Where Liberty Was Sown" about Magna Carta, the "real rights" it contains, and the modern threat to freedom as voters get seduced by the "right" to free stuff from politicians in return for their right to due process, property and so on. In it he kindly praised our documentary project and people have really taken notice. Thanks, Mark. We really appreciate it.
Last night I attended an excellent panel discussion "Magna Carta: What does it mean to Canada?" hosted by House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer. And I was very struck by a comment by panelist the Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Democratic Reform) that our liberties may be eight centuries long but they are only one generation deep. Exactly why we're making the documentary (https://www.kickstarter.com/…/magna-carta-our-shared-legacy…) and I'm delighted to report that we're now at 45%. Nearly half way. A long road ahead... but many thanks to all who have gotten us this far and let's keep it going.
Sun News Network has set. It is a bittersweet feeling. Click here to read the rest.