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NickM links to an article about the Equality Bill, in which someone calling himself The Heresiarch points out some problems with the Equality Bill.

The problems include that the bill tries to be all-encompassing, but succeeds only in enumerating a few “protected characteristics”. The effect is to reveal that those behind the bill are not so much interested in equality as they are in helping themselves and their friends in the equality industry.

That excellent article appears on a blog called Heresy Corner. Also there, you will find a timely discussion of the politics and economics of Star Trek. Some say the society in Star Trek is communist. I suspect that what’s going on in Star Trek is the idea that technology has made everyone so wealthy (for example, replicators can make whatever you need) that money is no longer needed. Charles Stross flirts with these sorts of ideas in Accelerando. It sounds a bit Marxist but I don’t think it necessarily is. I think it’s possible to imagine everyone being so rich that they only ever do anything for fun, and if so what would money be for? Star Trek fails because it still depicts hierarchy and jobs that aren’t fun, but that’s just a lack of imagination on the part of the writers.

I have more of a problem with some of the moralising in Star Trek, but that’s just lefty writers and it happens in Doctor Who, too.

Also on Heresy Corner you will find a review of a book about Britain’s problems in the 70s, some more having a go at Gordon Brown (apart from JK Rowling who likes him) and the regulation of bad words on American TV.

PS: Regarding bad words on TV, the inevitable problem with the Dambusters remake has surfaced.

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