{"id":32945,"date":"2016-03-30T06:53:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T05:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32945"},"modified":"2016-03-30T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T05:53:39","slug":"on-the-right-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/30\/on-the-right-to-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"On the right to speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kay <a href=\"https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/03d3811e-f593-11e5-96db-fc683b5e52db#axzz44FZXiX3P\" target=\"_blank\">has an excellent column in the FT <\/a>this morning.\u00a0It is headed:<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__header-primary\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__title\">Do not let petty lobbying laws starve the body politic<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__header-secondary\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__stand-first\">The quality of debate matters more than the misuse of small amounts of charitable funding<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">And concludes:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The quality of political debate is more important than the misuse of small amounts of state or charitable funding; and the expression of unconsidered opinions, or views that people have been paid to hold, are much greater threats to democracy and free speech. A mature democracy should fund, and will thrive on, a diversity of thoughtful and sincerely argued views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have little to add. I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kay has an excellent column in the FT this morning.\u00a0It is headed: Do not let petty lobbying laws starve the body politic The quality<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/30\/on-the-right-to-speak\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}